Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rather like Cary Grant in the 1938 movie Holiday, who explained to his future father-in-law: "It's always been my idea to make a few thousand early in the game if I could, and then quit for as long as they last and try to find out who I am and what I am and what goes on and what about it?now, while I'm young...
...last") or the late Vince Lombardi ("Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing"). Though Scott is primarily interested in reforming college athletics, the ramification of his ideas nevertheless carries through all sports, from the professional game right down to the Little League. When Dave Meggyesy quit his $35,000 job as linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals last season, he holed up in Scott's apartment for four months to write Out of Their League. The book is an angry, sometimes self-righteous attack on the "incredible racism," "dehumanizing conditions" and "violence and sadism...
...Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around eventually if only the U.S. and other major powers would quit meddling. "For God's sake," pleads a top Israeli diplomat, "let us bargain with the Egyptians. Don't force us into things...
BRIAN P. MCGUIRE, 24, six months ago quit a teaching job at Maryland's uncompromisingly traditional St. John's College after only one semester. His resignation letter was a deeply felt blast: "The intellectual life for me can be nothing more than a game, because if I let it become my whole life, then I destroy some of the primal impulses within me: my creative urge, my animal emotions, my spontaneity, my chaos that I treasure just as much as my unity that I seek...
...remedy is simply to limit tenure to perhaps 50% of any faculty, compared with the usual two-thirds to three-fourths who enjoy it now. To that end, some institutions have quit awarding tenure to anyone until their fogies retire, sometimes with the lure of hefty severance pay. The University of Wisconsin's new Green Bay campus is trying a more profound idea: in addition to regular faculty members it hires "lecturers" who agree to waive tenure in exchange for the salary of a full professor...