Word: blum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., asks, "What happens to kids' sense of self when they're valued only for achievement?" According to Marion Blum, of the Wellesley Child Study Center, hothousing may create "very nervous, anxious children afraid of failure and risk taking...
Freshman Lee Blum led Lehigh's overwhelming rushing attack with 85 yards on 21 carries--including a 10-yard touchdown jaunt in the second period...
...other selected professors were: Oxford College's A.O.J. Cockshut, Brown's Reginald D. Archambault, Yale's Anthony Appiah and John Blum, the University of Pennsylvania's Paul Fussell, and the University of Virginia's Bob Kellogg...
...German rose from the audience, filling the faint empty echo left by the absent Soviets, Hungarians, Poles and Bulgarians. Roars, shouts and groans were punctuated by the supplications, gestures of profound disbelief and uniquely affecting howls of "Aaaoowww!" from the fencers. "The players always assume their roles," explained Robert Blum, a New York lawyer who fenced on two Olympic teams. "As with all sports, fencing is a mode of communication. The fencers are telling us something about themselves." As Mathias Gey of West Germany was eliminated, he sank to his knees, crouched in defeat, while above him Stefano Cerioni...
...further buoyed that same Sunday when two Mondale staffers, Peter Kyros and Michael Cardoza, arrived at her house and stayed for four hours. They asked questions about her health, children, previous marriages (Feinstein and one husband had divorced; a second had died) and finances. "They messed up my Sunday," Blum complained with mock seriousness. "They wanted to know everything all the way back to kindergarten." On Monday the aides spent 14 hours at Blum's downtown office, scouring financial records. Blum ordered sandwiches sent in so reporters would not spot the Mondale...