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...indeed the aim of the selection committee was to get away from the conservative, almost static, meticulously controlled game of football Yovicsin developed during his tenure here, its efforts can be safely prejudged as successful...
Once his administrative framework is established, Bok will begin the arduous task of defining the role of the University under his leadership. First on the agenda is putting the University's academic house in order after two static decades wrought by Pusey's glossy, service-oriented administration...
...never static, that fate to which so many academicians succumb. He is a determined mon; his mild manner is broken only by the hard, direct line he pursues in support of firm beliefs. Bok's style of leadership is one not only of form, but of content. It is characteristic of Bok that he concentrates his energies on single tasks-never has he been guilty of overextending himself...
...midst of war, diplomatic signals course between enemies like radio waves through clouds of static. Lately, however, for all the rhetorical fog, some interesting messages have been broadcast on the critical and anguished question of repatriating prisoners of war in Viet...
...most people," says Stephen Jones of Shennuck, R.I., "things do not flow, especially small bodies of water in their vicinity." The former Coast Guardsman, lobsterman and author of the bizarre novel Turpin believes that most people view such water as a static extension of their own property, "a background against which lawn furniture may repose." In Drifting, an antique-flavored narrative of his small-craft outings in Louisiana, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, Jones asserts his ancient riparian rights to re-establish spiritual and public relations with the basic element that flows and quenches...