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ORIGINS OF THE PHRASE On March 15 , 1980 , the ''Boston Globe'' ran an editorial that began: :Certainly it is in the self-interest of all Americans to impose upon themselves the kind of economic self-discipline that President Carter urged repeatedly yesterday in his sober speech to the nation. As the President said, Inflation , now running at record rates, is a cruel tax, one that falls most harshly upon those least able to bear the burden. There was nothing exceptional about it except the headline: "Mush from the Wimp". In 1984 , the late Kirk Scharfenberg acknowledged that he was the author of the headline. "I meant it as an in-house joke and thought it would be removed before publication," he wrote. "It appeared in 161,000 copies of the Globe the next day." LATER USAGE The phrase became well-known enough that eleven years later a ''Globe'' editorial chastising the " into prominence. Although the original ''Globe'' editorial seems to have been titled "Mush from the Wimp," numerous citations refer to it as "More Mush from the Wimp." REFERENCES All three of ''Boston Globe'' articles mentioned in this entry are in the Globe's for-pay archives without individual linkable URL s. Boston Globe website SEE ALSO |
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