Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Butler, associate director of personnel for Harvard, said that the University would be willing to meet again if the union asked to resume talks, but he declined to disclose any details of the dispute...
...nevertheless, a flawed book. Although Manchester considers himself a historian, it is not truly history, for the events of Nov. 22, 1963, are still too recent and Manchester's emotional trauma much too evident. Although he rather pretentiously alludes to his own gargantuan labors with Samuel Butler's classic line, "Poets by their sufferings grow," Manchester's writing falls far short not only of poetry but often of good prose. But all this is rendered comparatively irrelevant by his basic achievement, which was to assemble an overwhelming mass of detail-so much detail that the story becomes...
...John house in Dorset was liberty hall, in which all the liberties were enjoyed by the patriarch painter. Wives, models and mistresses ("Augustus's paintings walked about") shuttled to and fro in various states of concubinage. Pooh-bahs of the literati strutted through the rooms. Nicolette recalls William Butler Yeats as a "Sacred Great Man" revered for his poetry, but also as a ham self-consciously impersonating his own image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that...
Librettist Henry Butler stripped O'Neill's six-hour epic to focus exclusively on the psychological currents that seethe beneath the surface of each of the main characters. Boris Aronson's ghostly sets created decadence and onrushing doom. As drama, the opera unfolded with all the shivering tension of one long, gradually building shriek, thanks in part to the almost balletic direction of Director Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). But what made Mourning move was the inspired acting of two darkly beautiful sopranos-Marie Collier as the lusting mother, and Evelyn Lear as the revengeful daughter...
...Kolb '65 is another former captain, as well as all-Ivy and all-America in sabre. Also competing in sabre will be Arthur Steinberg '58, Paul Zygas '64, and Lawrence Butler...