Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Says Goldin, "If my presence here serves as a role model, I'll be very happy...
...breaking out the vodka, unplugging the phone, drawing the blinds and passing out. She drank the dregs from the wineglasses after parties and gulped peanut butter to disguise the smell. Her isolation was matched only by her shame: she had often been held up to the public as a model of a recovered addict. In the final pages, as she describes losing everything, Kitty finds her strongest voice. By the end, she'd win every vote for courage and all hopes for a victory...
...generation, destined for the trenches at Ypres and the Somme, was almost innocent enough to ship off thinking of Horace's lines: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori." Years later, American boys flying to Vietnam sometimes unreeled John Wayne movies in their head. That was the model; that was what a man should look like, act like, when he goes...
...harshest attacks against Chubb and Moe have come from some of the educators most sympathetic to incremental reform. "Their book is a profound example of the intellectual community's abandoning our most important democratic institution," claims Bill Honig, the California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...
...before he was to die in Georgia's electric chair, the born-again convict won a stay of execution and a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Joining the model prisoner's campaign for clemency were some of the relatives of the man he confessed to killing...