I wrote about the Boston startup scene the other day and pointed out several waves of glory days that have come and gone in Massachusetts as whole generations of companies have disappeared that were once the stalwarts of the state economy, whether we are talking Polaroid or the entire mini computer industry including Digital, Wang, Data General, Apollo and Prime.
We know how such stories tend to function: they trace the sine wave of obscurity, glory, and setback and, in the process, gather Academy Awards for those in the central role.
Emboldened by international sanctions, he is riding a wave of populist glory born of lots of rhetoric and a few converging realities: tens of thousands of resettled peasants have reaped bumper tobacco crops, civil servants have taken possession of thousands of hectares of redistributed farmland, and national pride is back, boosted by major diamond finds.
Technology ads boomed in the 1990s, and ASAP rode the wave to glory and profitability.
Should Mr. Obama lose in 2012, he's not really the kind of guy you would expect to go out in a blaze of glory, waving around a veto pen after the voters have turned him out.
And after tracking the College Confidential message board like a stalker in the days before the November 15 announcement - where every student waved like flashing badges of glory their 2400 SAT's, 4.0 GPA's, and Perfect 5's on the 10 or 12 AP exams they had taken - I welcomed Daniel's rejection.
Inspired by a wave of nostalgia for the glory days of Washington and Lafayette, the two photographers made portraits of Waldo and five other veterans of the Revolution.
To be fair, I think my size had something to do with that!" There was barely time for the home fans to wave the white flags and boo their team before the crowning moment of glory.
Waves slosh through all of his books, whose titles sound like the names of sea chanties: "Sea of Glory," "Away Off Shore," "Second Wind," and "In the Heart of the Sea," the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for nonfiction.
With the Indiana Jones dynasty back in all its glory (including a tidal wave of corporate tie-ins), I'm tempted to re-rent my favorite of the four movies, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".
