Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bogart Jackson had to do was go out and play par golf for one more afternoon, and he would become the hottest new property on the tour since the once-chubby Jack Nicklaus shed 60 pounds and began playing--instead of eating--like a Golden Bear...
...doing it last Saturday against Auburn, except he is not finished. A trip to the Cotton Bowl is set for January, and then he will start planning for next fall. As time goes on-and Bryant, 68, says he is going on with it-there may be no catching Bear. For now, there may be no knowing him, except through his players and assistants. At least they can share the feeling of knowing him. And not just by their Bear stories, as fun as those are. The stories are as picturesque as he is, and they top him off like...
...Washington Redskins' and Chicago Bears' former head coach, now the San Diego Chargers' defensive coordinator, is a survivor of that infamous 1954 Junction (Texas) training camp in the Bear's first Texas A&M season. Of 96 players who went to summer camp, 27 were left after ten days of workouts in up to 110° heat. The others quit. "It was an effort to survive," says Pardee. "Each player could tell his own story, but mine was simply to make it to the next practice." The Bryant term for such tests: "gut checks...
...Orleans Saints Head Coach Bum Phillips, one of Bear's assistants at A & M, was awed by Bryant's command. "He'd go into a staff meeting," Phillips says, "and he'd never have to say, 'Let me have you-all's attention.' Hell, he had it. You respected him and you liked him. You didn't do it because you were scared of him. Although I was a little scared...
...Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both are men of the theater: with seven major operas to his credit (and three more on the way), Henze is the foremost figure in the lyric theater today. But Henze disdains the comparison, noting that he cannot bear either Wagner's music or his politics. "You must take your gifts-your means of production-as the tools of a teacher," he says, summing up his activist philosophy. "And you must dedicate your energies to teaching and helping. Wagner was a prophet. I'm a social worker...