Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francis Burr, some grappling hooks...
...interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor
...letter from Elizabeth A. Gray, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Kirkland House, students were urged to provide an explanation and description of their own conduct in the incident and were warned that they might be subject to disciplinary action...
...operas; the Brno State Philharmonic; the Czech Philharmonic; scores of folk singers and choirs. The Czech Philharmonic, one of the grander Old World orchestras, offered a smoothed-out, spruced-up version of the composer's music, while the more regional Brno orchestra left the burr in Janáček's rough edges. Lacking singers of international caliber, the Brno ensemble fared poorly in such star vehicles as The Makropoulos Affair. But Mr. Brouček was a crowd favorite, both because of the sensuous, tuneful music and the lavish production mounted in the 1,400-seat, ultramodern...
...president recalled that after first lecturing in Burr B eight years ago, 15 male students approached her and said that they came only "to see what it felt like." There were only four tenured women on the faculty at that time...