Word: buckley
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...compliment came from an unlikely source. ''You're so tasteful,'' gushed Bette Midler. Lena Horne's reply was something of a surprise: ''I'm tired of being tasteful.'' In this family history, Gail Lumet Buckley reveals the source of her mother's weariness and, en route, shows that fatigue can be contagious. Lena, it appears, was no sudden black star, up from ghetto poverty. Her ancestors, the ''old'' Hornes, had settled in New York City before the turn of the century. From the evidence of the book's many photographs, they were all attractive, intelligent people who paid a good...
...Buckley said earlier this spring that microbial and infectious disease research had both been floated as potential occupants...
...newly christened School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), which will lose its founding Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti in September, is contemplating its own Allston building, Buckley said, though she added that discussions were at a very preliminary stage...
...institutes, which he said “require a different kind of culture and mindset.”Venky has big hopes for SEAS, envisioning it as highly interdisciplinary—a model engineering school aimed at the broadly educated. One University planner, Associate Provost for Science Kathleen M. Buckley said recently that the school may get its own building in Allston.“We can do more in engineering by having an engineering school that connects, really bridges, literally and metaphorically to strengths across the University,” University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview...
...different agendas but want to do something together [can come], and we can say, ‘This is the good thing, this is the right thing, you should do this,’ even if it seems against their self-interest,” said Kathleen M. Buckley, the associate provost for science...