Word: bender
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick of being on a dole." Whatever the reason, he was tired of being just a graduate student. One day he stopped F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38 (dean of freshmen) in the Yard and asked about an administrative job. Von Stade sent him to Wilbur J. Bender '27, dean of admissions...
...Bender, the veterans of the late '40's-who came from more diverse backgrounds and received more financial aid than other undergraduates--seemed, for many reasons, the best possible student body for Harvard. He suggested joining the admissions and financial aid offices and became their first dean in the hope of recruiting that kind of student body...
...picked young assistants because he was sure his kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...
...stupid to know it. A player gives him a cold eye and blurts: "Why were the guys whispering? I'll tell you. You have bad breath. BAD BREATH!" Instead of booting the impudent brat out of the locker room, Coach goes on a Micrin bender, leaving the audience to conclude that now, by gosh, his team will get out there against State, and win one for the Gipper...
Cold-Eyed Calculation. Holding equal sway with the tyranny of time, is the tyranny of pictures. To the TV reporter, his producer is a man who dotes on "fender-bender footage": auto crashes, fires, demonstrations, fights...