Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three former DeGuglielmo supporters still on the council--Bernard Goldberg, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Cornelia B. Wheeler--voted to hire Sullivan. They were joined by Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Barbara Ackermann, both of whom had voted to fire DeGuglielmo, saying at the time that he lacked the professional expertise needed for the manager...
...main issue in the dispute was whether or not a community-run school committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...
...procedures under which the local committee was to act were never clearly defined. When the committee tried to get rid of 13 teachers and six supervisors last May, New York School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan called the action illegal. Many outraged parents kept their children out of class, and equally irate teachers walked out in support of their colleagues. The teachers were stoutly backed by U.F.T. President Albert Shanker, who denounced the dismissals as a denial of "due process...
...ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The scene fairly breathes piety and tranquillity. Indeed, the painting is one of the most popular masterpieces owned by Washington's National Gallery. Yet the question of who did it is surrounded by acrimony. Art Dealer Joseph Duveen and Critic Bernard Berenson broke off their friendship after an argument over whether it is by Giorgione or by his protégé, Titian. The scarcity of Giorgione's work compounds the problem. He died in his early 30s, and left behind only six or seven paintings. Thus, when Duveen bought The Adoration, he preferred...
...professors who have become sort of little popes." His biggest worry is that anarchist and Trotskyite students bent on revolutionizing all of French society will incite new violence, no matter what educational reforms are achieved. Even the more moderate rebels are a bit wary of Faure's promises. Bernard Herszberg, leader of SNESUP, a militant teachers' group, deplores the government's policy of "repression on one side and seduction on the other." But he came away from a recent meeting with Faure convinced that he is "the right man for the right job, a man who does...