Word: getterism
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...Pappy is really a good women's coach," Brown women's track Coach Jonathan E. Hird says. "He never slights the less talented runner in favor of the more talented point-getter. His team is always happy and contented, but not complacent--there's a difference," he adds...
Drawing on extensive interviews with Coe's companion, Virginia Perham, Olsen details the rage behind the go-getter smile. The vaunted independence was in fact financed by parental handouts. Often impotent, Coe bragged of his sexual prow ess to Perham as if she had not witnessed his failures. He alternately fasted and gorged on junk food, used the name Kevin with girlfriends and clients and spoke in a variety of voice inflections. "Knowing Fred Coe," said a schoolmate, "was like having a platoon of friends...
...seats, including 164 set aside for members of the House and 27 for Senators. States were permitted to require a candidate to win 20% of a congressional district's vote to qualify for delegates, or even award all the delegates in a district to the leading vote getter. Both methods favor front runners. Established candidates also got a boost from the decision to cluster 31 primaries and caucuses, in which almost half the total delegates will be chosen, within the first six weeks of the primary season...
...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...