Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTHOUGH Harvard is an outstanding academic institution, it has much to offer outside the classroom. Don't be afraid to try something you've never seen or even heard of before. Play rugby, join a dance class, write for one of the dozens of publications--even if you've never done anything like that before. It could be the greatest experience of your life...
...blowtorches nostalgia away, enlarging the memory, terror and all. The music reasserts history, not sentiment, and makes the same tough demands on head and heart as more traditional literature. Says the writer and essayist Steve Erickson: "Rock displaced the impact of American fiction because it wasn't afraid to believe in itself...
...neared Dunkirk, then were ordered to halt. Guderian protested but was told that it was Hitler's personal order, an important miscalculation that has never been fully explained. "The Fuhrer is terribly nervous," Chief of Staff Franz Halder wrote in his diary. "Frightened by his own success, he is afraid to take any chance and so would rather pull the reins...
...spent more time thinking about most of the issues I talk about than ((other)) people who talk about them. And as a consequence I'm not shooting from the hip." Not from the hip, perhaps, but, as he amply demonstrates in Straight Shooting, John Silber is not afraid to pull the trigger...
Sununu puckishly allows, "I have been known to ask provocative questions." His bad-cop act has the President's support, but Sununu has drawn fire from Congress and has left some staffers afraid to voice unpopular advice in his presence. Many consult more easily with Sununu's own good cop, deputy to chief of staff Andrew Card. Colleagues were relieved when Card decided to stay at the White House rather than run for Governor of Massachusetts...