Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to Fish's tradition-heaped ways, McGuire represented the opposite end of the spectrum. From the childhood days over his parents' bar to progressive coaching with the cast of athletic psychology, the NBC color commentator pulls no punches, rejects tradition as trouble and lives by a self-concerned conviction that would make the Schlitz gustograbbers ecstatic...
...school way, Fish dismissed Jimmy Carter as "the biggest asset the Republican party has," and rejected the notion that athletes are intellectually inferior. He said, "The last four presidents [before Carter] all played football for their college teams...
McGuire, moving into his New York City-smart psychological arguments, echoed Fish, saying the academics must "dismiss the pink elephants" that haunt them about high-powered athletes. "My father was an Einstein. He was a Michaelangelo because he ran a bar that was successful," McGuire quipped...
...while Fish reveled in stories about Harvard's wild 10-9 loss to Yale in the 1908 basketball championships, McGuire dug deep into the soul of Harvard's half-hearted, wavering flirtation with powerful athletics...
...updating Fish's cry for Harvard's return to athletic excellence, adding to it the understanding that Harvard in the '70s can't expect to compete with sports factories. And updating is just what Harvard needs...