Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk," Halas replied: "What...
Bach, the protestant composer, is the worst. He transforms the repetitions of our lives so they shimmer and seem transfigured. But underneath it all is the beat. Bach is a fraud contributing to the rise of Capitalism in his proclamation of a transcendent life for businessman and worker. But are these lives rightly transfigured into grace...
...Peking on a cultural exchange program, then set to work. Some parts were easy. "The price list for food," says Girard, "was taken right off the stalls in the Peking markets, the section on Chinese cooking from actual menus of banquets we attended." The group questioned every tourist, businessman and teacher who came through Peking about his travels inside China, then sent the information out of China in the safety of French diplomatic packets. Forbidden to visit the grave of Confucius in Shantung, Girard contrived to overfly it in a small plane so as to describe it better. When...
...business, this has not always been so. One needed only to go out and join the great free-enterprise system to become a businessman in the past. Even before a student chooses a career, he is concerned with the legitimacy of his graduate studies. Only recently has management become a teachable science, and even more recently an accepted form of academic endeavor. All problems of undergraduate views of business aside, it is then easy to see why the most academically oriented students, questioning the validity of this upstart graduate discipline, turn to the older, more established courses of graduate study...
...final explanation for undergraduates' lack of enthusiasm is what Professor Joseph Bower, Faculty Coordinator of the Harvard Business School Summer Internship Program this summer, calls the problem of the role of the businessman. This concept seems to encompass both the intellectual and societal hang-ups of undergraduates in regard to business. The role of the doctor or the role of the lawyer are academically and socially defined and accepted. Most undergraduates today neither understand nor accept the concept of the role of the businessman. It has for too long been ambiguous. The role of the professional manager...