Word: lebaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culpa to the networks for a million dollars. Such books usually break down into one of three types: gripes, boasts or confessions. Few are flexible enough to encompass all of these forms, but those that do can evoke sympathy for the writer and emnity for his oppressors. Charles LeBaron's Gentle Vengeance--An Account of the First Year at Harvard Medical' School is this protean type; complaining and bragging, it is an autobiography in institutional clothing...
...LeBaron has a lot of company on the inside. Harvard circuit. Love Story reduced the life of the undergrad to sports and sex. One L demonstrated the collective ego of the Harvard Law School, and The House of God wildly captured the spirit of interns at Beth Israel Hospital. Paper Chase even scamed its way onto TV. There was little territory left for a writer to snatch, so LeBaron now moves us into the classrooms and anatomy labs of Harvard Medical School or, as Samuel Shem called it in House of God. BMS--Best Medical School...
...Mexican-American farm workers, Flores began his football career as a schoolboy quarterback in Sanger, Calif. At the College of the Pacific, he broke most of Eddie LeBaron's passing records, but was overlooked in the N.F.L. draft. He went to the Canadian Football League, but was dropped after a shoulder ailment recurred. Flores drifted to the Raiders, where he was starting quarterback for two seasons before contracting tuberculosis. He returned to play for eight more years with a couple of N.F.L. teams, then joined the Raiders' coaching staff...
...test tracks are several new cars. Flouting industry tradition, Chrysler has already been showing off its new models for the next three years. Next fall a luxury version of the K-car will be introduced. In 1983 new "stretch K" mid-size cars will replace the moribund Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge Diplomat line. Also in the planning stages are a mini-van and an Italian designed sports...
Grandine won the LeBaron Russell Briggs prize for his undergraduate thesis on William Wordsworth, which was later published, and became a History and Literature tutor while working on his doctoral dissertation on John Milton...