Word: teacher
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Football and religion have always gone hand-in-hand. Pregame prayers, "Hail Mary" passes, and "miraculous" comebacks are all hallowed rites. "Like religion, football is ritualized," says Father Michael F. Ford, chaplain at Holy Cross and former high school teacher for Harvard football standouts Bob Joyce and Brian Sullivan...
While the GSD remained true to the spirit of reinforced concrete and the right angle during Sert's tenure--as evidenced in Peabody Terrace or Boston City Hall--orthodoxy was being questioned at schools like Pennsylvania (homebase of the influential architect and teacher Louis Kahn) and UCLA (where Charles Moore blended high design with neon glitz...
...Like the teacher he once was, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett was standing before a group of pupils on their first day of school last week. Bennett had come to Amidon Elementary School, in a low-income district of Washington, D. C., to tell the children about the importance of rules and to ask them what they were learning. In case any of them were wondering about the identity of this man surrounded by reporters and television cameras, their principal, Pauline Hamlette, had a simple answer. Mr. Bennett, she told them, is "America's schoolmaster...
...Senate in 1952, the year Joe was born. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 35, the first Kennedy woman to seek office, is running for Congress in a less familiar place, Maryland's Second District, north of Baltimore. She has lived there for two years with her husband David, a teacher at St. John's College in Annapolis...
More than a year passed before the "schoale" 's appointed overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled...