Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are few mortals past or present as knowledgeable about the golf swing as Fitzgibbons. "I've put so much time into trying to find a perfect swing," he says. "I've tried to isolate every single move--to break the golf swing into 400 parts and make each perfect." Nor has he arrived at the end of his search for the flawless swing. In fact, despite taking some lessons from the renowned teaching pro Claude Harmon, he feels his swing has lost some of its youthful fluidity...
...evidenced a break from history, for unless my facts are wrong, Harvard has had but one athletic director who was an invader of the Harvard community. And it was a disaster, because whether or not you want to admit it, this place is a country club, and you just don't ask non-members to lead country clubs, or all of the members will quit...
...from the quest for a firm and acceptable "identity"--derives from his possible confusion and embarassment over his own identity. Erikson articulated the notion of a dramatic and often life-altering "identity crisis," usually occurring during adolescence, in his first book, Childhood and Society. His notion was that a break-down in sense-of-self could lead either to the perpetuation of identity confusion in a neurotic adulthood or to an inventive re-integration of an identity largely independent of family and established social roles, and thus to a healthy, productive maturity. Erikson carried this concept over into his studies...
...years friends have told me how easy it is to air hitchhike. A cheap way to a suntan, they said, with a chance for adventure besides. In the weeks before spring break my friend and I dared each other and boasted to others until we had no choice: we would drive to her home in New Jersey on Sunday and air hitchhike south on Monday--anywhere south. Easy...
...current reform efforts began in March, when a panel of freshmen voted to break a six-year boycott of the CRR by nominating four freshmen to the committee...