Word: succession
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...playing fields of Eton. The lessons learned on the playing field are among the most basic: the setting of goals and joining with others to achieve them; an understanding of and respect for rules; the persistence to hone ability into skill, prowess into perfection. In games, children learn that success is possible and that failure can be overcome. Championships may be won; when lost, wait till next year. In practicing such skills as fielding a grounder and hitting a tennis ball, young athletes develop work patterns and attitudes that carry over into college, the marketplace and all of life...
...elementary and secondary level, HEW has had some limited success. The regulations for high schools went into effect in July 1976; so far a score of programs have been altered as the result of the Government's intercession. One example: Oak Ridge, Tenn., where the school district was threatened with the loss of $750,000 in federal funds unless the girls' athletic program was upgraded. On their own, however, thousands of schools have improved their programs...
...With success come all the pressures that long have been part of men's sports. The new emphasis on winning?and luring customers through the turnstiles?has produced a familiar syndrome of corruption. College recruiters, though technically barred from sweet-talking hot prospects, have nonetheless found ways to hound young, often unsophisticated athletes. Tales of under-the-table payments and inducements?a new car or postschool job?have begun to circulate. The A.I.A.W. has no full-time enforcement unit to oversee violations, subscribing instead to the credo that conscience is more powerful than compulsion. "We are built upon self-policing...
Ringlets, a straw hat, crimson satin bloomers-and sneakers. Midge Costanza knows how to dress for success. In fact, President Carter's aide stole the show last week at a fund raiser for the Women's National Democratic Club. The "political fashion show" at Washington's Arena Stage featured Caron Carter dressed as her mother-in-law and Louisiana Representative Lindy Boggs as Lady Bird Johnson. Costanza's role: Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White...
Capitalism must recover its moral content, argues Kristol, if it is going to survive. This is what Horatio Alger provided in such abundance for generations gone by. A businessman did not become a success just by making money. Heaven forbid! He was successful because capitalism encouraged certain character traits that used to be admired and are now disdained as "bourgeois virtues." For decades, writes Kristol, "liberal capitalism has been living off the inherited cultural capital of the bourgeois era and has benefited from a moral sanction it no longer even claims. That legacy is now depleted, and the cultural environment...