Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were just too much. As for the Yankees, don't cry in your sanitary hose fellas. Any team that makes George Foster catch with two hands has got to be doing a lot of things right...
...different outlooks on feminism and on what should be included in Women's Studies, so that the style of learning and teaching can evolve along with the content. The possibilities in this area are exciting, as they are in any new field that is defining itself. This university must foster and encourage such explorations and not try to brand every innovation illegitimate...
...many of the best players in the American League, only four of whom came up through their farm system. Thurman Munson and Roy White, two of the Yankees who made it up from the Syracuse farm club, will be no match for their Cincinnati counterparts, Johnny Bench and George Foster...
...outfield, the Reds have some young players, like George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey, who, despite their great hit-and run-producing abilities, also play spectacular defense. The Yankees' troika of White, Rivers and Elliot Maddox aren't the greatest hitters and their defense leaves a lot to be desired as well...
Despite her oddities, Joan Foster becomes a character who genuinely engages the reader's sympathy and suggests that within every classically shaped woman there may be a ballooning romantic waiting to get out. She is also a useful vehicle for a meditation on the possibilities of modern fiction. In unobtrusive layers of allusion, Atwood pays homage to earlier forms of the novel - the picaresque, the gothic romance, the Bildungsroman and Victorian saga. She tries to shoehorn her heroine's life into the coherent contours of those forms, but Joan Foster won't sit still for the fitting...