Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To any sports fan, a 1-4 record does not inspire confidence, but the character of the Harvard team might.
Serious disciplinary problems have flared up at colleges where recruiters focused on athletic prowess to the exclusion of character. Recently, college players have been implicated in such crimes as attempted murder, break-ins, public drunkenness, disturbing the peace, battery and drug abuse. Coaches, too, can get into trouble when they...
The newcomer of the year thus far is John Collee, a British physician and writer of TV medical scripts. In A Paper Mask (Arbor House; 232 pages; $16.95), his second book, the premise is that most emergency-room orderlies fancy themselves able, by practical experience, to diagnose and treat patients...
Wheelwright recalls this and subsequent apocalypses from his home in Toronto, where he has lived as an expatriate for 20 years. Assimilation is difficult; Canada is under the perpetual influence of a hot-air mass pumped in by media from the south, and Wheelwright is a U.S. news junkie. As...
Hamlets like Clay Center, Kans., have been sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in...