Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan Tech pep band, bedecked in brown and yellow striped overalls, frequently played the former hit song "In Heaven There Is No Beer" during the NCAA hockey tourney. Can you sing the words...
...title suggests, the book is a psychiatric pep talk in the long tradition of self-help books that provide what Psychiatrist Karl Menninger once called "bibliotherapy." Children used to learn how to live from their parents, notes Herbert C. Kelman, professor of social ethics at Harvard. But now "every generation is on its own and often seeks a packaged way of acquiring wisdom...
Well, that happened was that Donna was pretty well upstaged. She was upstaged by something that said a lot more about the music and the people than she, in fire-engine red pants suit and pep talk tones, could say. What happened was that after Freddy Hart and the Heartbeats, with the lights glittering off their sequined seams and tapping patent leather boots had knocked out a few tunes, and after Freddy Hart had invoked the late great Hank Williams and the late great Tex Ritter, and told the audience, with the genuine feeling of the poor boy made good...
...Saturday-morning sales meeting, salesmen disconsolately kicked the floor or coughed nervously as the owner delivered a classic pep talk...
...fiery speech did about as much good as halftime pep talks usually do; despite free Green Stamps, and cut-price kits allowing customers to convert their cars to burn propane gas, Worthington's Dodge Boys sold only ten cars that day v. forty on a normal Saturday...