Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technically, the production is severely cramped by the confines of Leverett's Old Library, which is about as suitable for theater as Burr A. The lack of space is particularly evident in the tacky plywood castle walls, which serve as the only set. The choreography, on the other hand, makes the most of the tiny stage: the dance sequences are adequate, although the full-cast numbers look like barely organized mayhem with practically no one having any room to move...
...organization of important businessmen, university faculty and former government officials, and has great influence in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. If the first 82 names on a list proposed by President Kennedy for staffing his State Department, 63 were members of the CFR.) Francis Burr is a partner in the old, gilt-edged law firm of Ropes & Gray, and director of several mutual funds and banks. Charles Slichter is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, one of the top ten university defense contractors. As a member of the research board of the graduate college at Illinois...
...This has been a touchy period and some people on both sides have been abrasive. I think she has been very good at seeing the right thing and not creating trouble and frustrations," says Radcliffe trustee and executive committee member Francis H. Burr...
Horner supposedly does not exercise the control over the trustees that Bunting did, which has sparked some speculation that a configuration on the executive board of the trustees--Lyman, Burr and Mary Bundy '46, vice-chairman of the trustees and the wife of former dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy--is, in fact, the inspiration behind Radcliffe...
...number of Yankee ladies into the same pose and dress, both copied from a 15-year-old London illustration (see pictures, previous column). There follow more than a hundred full-page portraits of colonial gentry, and of Revolutionary celebrities from (of course) Washington to John Adams and Aaron Burr, as well as portraits of some of the American painters for whom they sat. Each personality has a facing page of biography. The faces often encourage long and fascinated scrutiny. The biographies, though they are mostly fashioned of pure cardboard, help a good deal to familiarize the reader with the names...