Word: hinman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their best, the electives have the intensity and ferment of Kelly Wise's novel and drama course. Wise's teaching style is vastly different from that of Georgie Hinman, a legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them...
Since he knew he was not the yachting Establishment's choice, the triumph on its merits was particularly sweet. And Terrible Ted Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain...
...there are any trends in what students are reading these days, I would describe them as leaning towards entertainment reading," Hinman says...
...Robert Hinman, a paperbook buyer for the Harvard Coop, says students have asked for these books persistently since they came out. They are well respected and widely talked about, he noted...
...Hinman, who has worked at the Coop for some seven years, added that a fairly well accepted theory among booksellers has it that there have been no definitive trends over the past five years. This lack of direction represents a drastic change from past decades, when students appeared to only be interested in the same cults and social issues...