Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oberg, who is also president of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, plans eventually to attend business school but adds, "there's a lot of time to go to work.," Meanwhile, he'll spendnext summer in New Zealand to fine tune his rugby skills, then return to California for a tryout with the Pacific Coast team, and--if things go right--the U.S. National squad...
...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...
...night a few months ago, a record executive heard him in the cafe, and offered him a tryout in Chicago. Something out of the blue and tenuous at best, but it gave Collucci an excuse to leave the boring, if secure job at the cafe. He wanted to get some publicity pictures before he took off. "Train stations are cool," he said, and so we went there and another day to his dark, movie poster-filled apartment, and he posed his one pose. It said it all: all the depression, the anger, the disappointment. One day later he left...
...umpire should hate humanity." Ernie Stewart, a wartime umpire, laments the loneliness that goes with the job: "Every city is a strange city; you don't have a home." Bill McKinley, a 19-year man, thinks of the jeers and catcalls as a kind of minor league tryout: "Some fellows never made it because they couldn't take it." Still, despite these drawbacks, none of the officials ever considered leaving the game; as The Men in Blue amply testifies, all of them seemed to enjoy every minute of their misery...
...where armies of theorists clash, frequently using language that is unintelligible to the layman. Faddish theories sweep through the profession, changing standards, techniques, procedures. Often these changes dislocate students and teachers to little purpose. The New Math is an instructive example. Introduced in the early '60s without adequate tryout, and poorly understood by teachers and parents, the New Math eventually was used in more than half the nation's schools. The result: lowered basic skills and test scores in elementary math. Exotic features, like binary arithmetic, have since been dropped. Another trend is the "open classroom," with...