Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard undergraduate, gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) was as close to the stereotypical briefcase-toting "gov jock...
State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) was identified as a "gov jock" while he was a Harvard undergraduate, although he never took a government class. The history concentrator learned about politics on the job, as the manager for several Massachusetts campaigns...
Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...most of the new jock cinema, there is plenty of triumph but not much craft. Indeed, these movies are basically the same movie, with plots from Horatio Alger and psychology from Freud for Beginners. The story, almost inevitably, goes like this...
...players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play in college, and only 25 reach the NBA. Even a star jock -- Charles Barkley, Ernie Banks, O.J. Simpson -- may never be "a champion...