Word: walkerism
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...probably should have studied more. When Olympic swimmer Rowdy Gaines asked me to compare Secretary of State Colin Powell’s foreign policy to National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice’s, I almost laughed. Some of the other girls got even weirder questions. Heisman trophy winner Herschel Walker is fond of grilling contestants with church involvement on their resumes about obscure Bible passages. More than one of us walked out of that room in tears...
...have a broader base of listeners to tap. New York City's WNYC just completed its strongest winter fund-raising drive, reaping $1.2 million, and in the past six years its budget has increased nearly threefold, to $24 million. "We get very little government support," says WNYC president Laura Walker, 45, "but our listeners come through...
During the Middle Ages people routinely imbibed the blood of executed criminals who repented before they died, renowned medievalist Caroline Walker Bynum said in speech yesterday at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...good schoolroom,” and Coles took these words to heart as well. When he started teaching General Education 105, he crafted a syllabus that captured Percy’s values not only in its intentions, but also in its substance. Beginning with James Agee and Walker Evans’ photographic social history “Let us Now Praise Famous Men,” the reading list included works by Percy, Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and an encyclopedia of other socially-conscious observers...
...media productions during that period—at first graced by the networks’ decision not to run ads, then vulgarized by their slick “Attack on America” graphics—DoubleTake was an ideal setting for personal accounts and photoessays that were, in Walker Percy’s terms, neither patronizing nor didactic...