Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psychological advantage enjoyed by an underdog team seeking to upset an arch rival is a phenomenon common to almost any sport. But this shaving bit is something else. Only swimmers use this tactic. Every swimmer worth anything does it religiously before the big meet of the season. And no one really understands why it works, even the coaches and the athletes themselves. All everyone knows is that it does work, sometimes incredibly well...
Even in courses where the case and support materials are similar, there is a tremendous diversity of approach among teachers all professing to be using the same "method." A paper issued in 1977 by Arch R. Dooley, Philips Professor of Manufacturing, and C. Wickham Skinner, Robison Professor of Business Administration, stresses just that diversity. The report, called "Casing Case Method Methods," claims that "the phrase 'case method' embraces such an array of pedagogic practices that the term itself has no precise connotation...
...something that no one who was there will ever forget. A team effort rivaling that of the Harvard football squad in its upset of Yale this past fall. An unexpected victory over an arch-rival that literally made a team's entire season a success...
...sexless, affectless and guileless to a fault. His face shows no emotion except the beatific, innocent smile of a moron. His verbal repertoire consists only of mild pleasantries, polite chuckles and vague homilies about gardening. Sellers' gestures are so specific and consistent that Chance never becomes clownish or arch. He is convincing enough to make the film's fantastic premise credible; yet he manages to get every laugh...