Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school is the brainchild of Mike DeSisto, 40, a bearded and pudgy teacher turned therapist. For eleven years, DeSisto was the salaried director of Lake Grove, a Long Island school where he developed his therapeutic program. Fired after he was accused by the Lake Grove trustees of trying to break up the school, the strong-willed DeSisto announced plans to found his own school; and most of the faculty and student body quit to go with him. Parents of the kids were loyal too. DeSisto bought the Stockbridge property with tuition money they paid in advance...
...opening series, a fine-tuned Crimson offense slipped down the field under the able guidance of the heady St. John. Using a Restic brainchild--the triple slot formation--Harvard baffled Dartmouth by lining up four receivers to one side and sending the fifth man in motion to that side...
...MULTIFLEX--The Restic brainchild will not be back in full bloom with Buchanan still just learning the ropes. St. John had a very good grip on the system of infinite-shift confusion, but Buchanan can be expected to stay with a relatively simple option offense more than anything else. The problem, as Restic has said since early September, is that the Crimson lineman do not have the size to "blow out" the opposition. With the Flex, where everyone is shifting, the Crimson can take advantage of motion to offset much of the size disadvantage. But from the power...
Larsen signed on as circulation manager of the Luce-Hadden brainchild...
...Core Curriculum, the brainchild of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 review of undergraduate education and five years of professorial debate and intensive faculty committee work, will be phased in over the next three years to replace the ailing 34-year-old General Education (Gen Ed) program. Under the Core, the three-part Gen Ed requirement--Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities--will become five sections--Literature and the Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Cultures, and Science...