Word: getterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called "Mama's Family": Amanda Wingfield, a fiftyish matron whose husband abandoned her 15 years earlier, plots to find a "gentleman caller" who will support her and marry her shy, lame daughter Laura. In the second half, a young man does call-no gentleman, rather an awkward go-getter whose own glory days are long past-and a bittersweet romance flutters through and out of Laura's life. Amanda, Laura and Tom (Laura's brother and the play's narrator) may be fated to melancholy, but they survive on a diet of waspish barbs and mock...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream, the truth clawing down one after another of his defenses, Willy Loman has no prop left except a loyal and loving wife. It is not enough. He can only...
Yomiuri and its two largest rivals compete for scoops in the go-getter fashion of Fleet Street. Yet the Japanese newspapers can be cautious, often in concert, to the point of professional embarrassment: the 1974 allegations of financial misconduct that brought down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka were first exposed in a magazine, Bungei Shunju; the Big Three newspapers did not pick up the story for weeks. Moreover, supposedly competing journals band together in a peculiarly Japanese institution, the "press clubs." At major sources of news (government ministries, political party headquarters, the 47 police prefectures), correspondents from daily newspapers control...
...risky. Can this gutty loner reach out to people and build coalitions? Can this fussy perfectionist form a Government and make it work? These are questions that people are entitled to ask themselves about a man who wants to be President. John Glenn, war hero, space hero, champion vote getter, for the past 40 years a veritable Mr. America, still must show he can put the required pieces of the puzzle together...
...unsensational, almost matter-of-fact nature of the event. Though the national media seem poised to cover "Harvard's election of a gay chairman," students here seemed to have no thought of such fanfare. The chairman, Michael Colantuono '83, has used his GSA experience as a campaign vote-getter but, now in office, he downplays the label "gay activist"; he promised the council while campaigning that he would not impose his politics or "progressive views" on them. For the meteorically successful Harvard gay rights movement, it may seem that a truly wonderful goal has been attained--this is the year...