Word: abrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the guests were J. Peterson Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Abram Bergson, director of the Russian Research Center; Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Fine Arts, and Paul G. Dety, professor of Chemistry. Two M.I.T. faculty members also attended. The group discussed education in the two countries...
...20th year as the first president of Brandeis University, Abram L. Sachar, 68, announced last week that he plans to retire as soon as a successor can be found. A passionate, strong-willed administrator whose phrasemaking flair and public charm raised $160 million to build the school from scratch, Sachar told the Brandeis trustees that the university needs a "reappraisal that new leadership can provide." The board voted to create for Sachar the advisory post of chancellor, in which he will continue to exercise his fund-raising talents. Sachar insists that his new job "will not impinge on the authority...
...Abram Goldman is a robust and endearing antique dealer with an imaginative zest for life. When he begins to suffer from leukemia, he is treated with the inevitable escalation of drugs, yet his condition deteriorates. His Jewish-mother-type wife and his daughters-one, the narrator, married with two daughters; the other, the novel's problem child, unmarried and with one foot in the Beat scene-observe his gallant but losing battle...
...depressing. But Author Merrill Joan Gerber makes it even more so by coating it with sentimentality. A short-story writer who has published in Redbook and Mademoiselle, she seems glued to the traditional women's magazine faith-the world is blackest just before a rose-tinted dawn. After Abram's death, the problem sister marries her beatnik lover. The other sister decides that she will bear a son with her father's name-"It was all I could do in this world-all I could hope to do." Almost any death has a quantum of emotion...
...success has been its departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...