Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...years into the presidency, people not only were not calling him Jimmy, they were calling him Carter, almost always with a hard edge of distaste. Indeed, the entire history of this Administration may be read in the evolution from "Jimmy" to "Carter," one name, in a sense, being the polar opposite of the other. The first law of nicknaming, then, is that the term must arise from the heart, from some irrepressible popular urge to bring a public figure closer to the family bosom. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was aided immeasurably in her campaign by being known as Maggie...
However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...Harvard women's hockey team gave Bowdoin a demonstration of the adage, "the best defense is a good offense," as the Crimson put the freeze on the Polar Bears, 9-0, Saturday afternoon in Brunswick...
Senior Sara Fischer struck first in this one-sided shootout, tallying the first of her two goals 12 minutes after the opening faceoff. Yardling winger Dianne Hurley slipped past the Polar Bear defense at the blueline, drew the other Bowdoin defender into the corner, and deftly centered to Fischer, who knocked the puck past net minder Liz Sherwood...
Vicki Palmer added the first of her pair at 16:45, flipping the puck into the crease from the right corner; the puck deflected off a Polar Bear blueliner into the net in the ensuing scramble. Moments later, last year's leading scorer Alex Lightfoot beat Sherwood from a seemingly impossible angle to give the Crimson a 3-0 first-period lead...