Word: lemminger
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There is a lemming-like quality to today's corporate captivation with large-scale ventures in leisure-time communities. Scores of prominent, publicly held companies have leaped into the risky business, investing more than $700 million in the hope of big, though perhaps slow, profits. Few have become so...
At noon today about 1200 insane people are going to line up Hopkinton with the sober intention of running 26 miles and 385 yards. The occasion for this lemming-like stampede is the 73rd Boston Marathon.
Maverick Lemming. But Vidal allows neither exhibitionism nor malice to keep him from his duties as journalist. Vidal did a flagrant hatchet job on the Kennedys; but he is also highly informative not only about the Kennedy family but about politicians in general and how they behave in the pursuit...
Vidal thinks of himself as a liberal-or, as he prefers to put it, a "maverick lemming." In fact, he is more nearly a conservative, with a taste for tradition in literature and privilege in life. He conveys the oddly patrician appeal of an elegant and unabashed snob and he...
Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26...