Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised Dukakis on nuclear power and the Seabrook, N.H. power plant, says that Dukakis "never did campaign from the Kennedy School." Instead, "just like any teacher, he learned a lot from teaching," he says. Dukakis won the support of Bay State voters in the next gubernatorial election...
...word "psilocybin," a new "mind-expanding" drug, enter the Harvard vocabulary. Lecturer Timothy Leary and Assistant Professor Richard Albert began administering the drug to themselves and their experimental subjects, setting ablaze a controversy over drug-related research that led to the two professors' dismissal...
Much of the testimony at the congressional hearings has revolved around the question of profiteering. Secord admitted that he and his business partner, Albert Hakim, hold in Swiss bank accounts some $8 million generated by the Iran-contra "enterprise." He said he had no interest in keeping this money and would gladly give it to the contras as a memorial to the late CIA director William Casey. But meanwhile he has taken court action to keep U.S. investigators from acquiring the bank records of these accounts...
...kind of winning eclecticism has prevailed in recent Pulitzer awards, mirroring a two-decade trend in contemporary composition. Since 1980 there have been prizes for neoconservatives like David Del Tredici, committed serialists like the late Roger Sessions and unabashed proponents of tonality like Stephen Albert...
This, though, is a relatively small matter. Better to celebrate the rise to prominence of Harbison and fellow Symphonists Albert and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who won her Pulitzer in 1983. Like Broadway, the symphony is a fabulous invalid: there is nothing wrong with it that a few good works cannot cure...