Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little League team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base 70% of the time-since her coach discovered her throwing a ball against a building. Besides baseball, her interests include basketball, music, bike riding and the Pittsburgh Pirates (her idol: Outfielder Dave Parker, who strong-armed the National League's 7-6 win in Seattle). Crystal, a B student, will enter the sixth grade this fall. But right now she's concentrating on leading the Phillies into the league playoffs and pursuing what used to be only a little...
...magnitude of me, the magnitude of the instance, the magnitude of New York...It's uncomfortable being me, it's uncomfortable being recognized instantly, it's uncomfortable being considered something I'm not, an idol or a monster, something hated or loved...
...until the end of his report, where Bok names specific changes, that he steps on some toes. When he suggests that the school place less emphasis on the "case method" of teaching, he even smashes an idol or two. Under this method, teachers present details of actual business situations to their students, and force them to make decisions--using a Socratic questioning technique similar to that practised at the Law School...
With both teams skating four a side, Elice-idol Paul Castraberti notched the game-winner at 13:21 of the third. The sophomore rink dragster used his speed to create a breakaway for himself at the Harvard blue line, then beat Harvard goalie Giff Duffy with a wrist-shot from the right circle...
...though, he was an idol returning home. As a freshman comping for the Crimson in the fall of 1975, I had been amazed by this massive man. He had seemed almost supernatural in his athletic abilities as a football and track-and-field competitor, yet he was always humble, always polite, always willing to talk at length to an ill-informed reporter (like me, for example...