Word: butler
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...infancy, gerontology has produced major revisions in doctors' understanding of how people grow old. Explains Dr. T. Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging: "It's the diseases that we acquire in later years that really cause the deterioration of functions." Or, as Dr. Robert Butler of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City puts it, "Disease, not age, is the villain." The good news is that in many instances, physical disorders that afflict the aging can be effectively treated. Today even multiple afflictions do not necessarily incapacitate a person. Citing the case...
Overseers President Samuel C. Butler '51, chair of the Executive Committee, could not be reached for comment...
...issue at the meeting,but that he did not think it would focus on hisproposal. "I'm not aware that any suggestions I'vemade are going to be discussed further by theBoard," he said. Wood wrote his proposaldistributed at the December meeting in response toa request by Bok and Butler...
...Webber felt embarrassed and humiliated by what he regarded as the "travesty" of the New York production, the more phlegmatic Rice was content to let it run its course and enjoy the success. A few months later, when Rice dropped out of a treatment of P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, Jeeves, Lloyd Webber enlisted Playwright Alan Ayckbourn and put the show on the boards in Bristol. It eventually closed in London after 47 performances -- a failure that continues to rankle the fierce perfectionist...
Their resignations came one week after the first Black woman ever to win tenure at Smith, Professor of Afro-American Studies Johnella E. Butler, announced that she would leave the school because she was disturbed by the school's attitude toward minorities...