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Nixon also succeeded in conveying to his audience a sense of esprit and solidity at the top, even if most of the appointments did little to add to the public knowledge of the precise directions his policies will take...
...Academies of Transition will go on to a third and final level, at either New Jersey's privately endowed Newark Prep or the Urban League's Harlem Prep. Founded last October and already accredited, Harlem Prep has its own school song, navy blue blazers and an unmistakable esprit, de corps. Both schools have thus far sent 96 former dropouts to college...
...predecessor, was the epitome of the police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround the department, in Reddin's words...
...esprit of the hundred students on this floor and the 600 other people who were arrested in the bust--and the rapidly increasing number of Columbia's moderate students--is matched by their open hostility to any member of the establishment, educational or political. A message is written on the door of the Spectator in red magic marker: "We hereby announce open hostility toward the cretins who form the bulk of the working national press. Your insensitive mis-representation will receive no aid from this office--the editors...
...defensive backfield coach Park has developed an incredibly close relationship with those four or five men who guard Harvard's airways. One of them said yesterday, "Loyal has changed me personally. Confidence and pride just flow out of him, and into us. He molds a real esprit de corps. He puts on terrific pressure during practice, but that makes the games all the easier. And you always know that, when you make a mistake, he'll be there to boost you up and tell you immediately how to correct it. He's the greatest coach I've ever...