Word: career
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...well-dressed, mostly well-heeled students, including six men, prepare all their own food at home without household help. They range from sophisticated bees fins who have taken expensive courses on the Continent to young marrieds and a couple of high school students, one of whom is considering a career in cooking. Steve and Mary Stover treated each other to a Hazan class as a tenth-wedding-anniversary present. Several students say they regard cooking as a form of therapy. Indeed, one student suffering "a late 20s crisis" was actually referred to the school by her psychiatrist. A young real...
Blind Ambition has good intentions; this mini-series is even more ambitious than its protagonist. By tracing the career of White House Counsel Dean (Martin Sheen), the show can touch on virtually every Watergate headline: the Huston plan, the Saturday Night Massacre, the plumbers' dirty tricks, the Nixon pardon. Unfortunately, Writer Stanley R. Greenberg (Pueblo) retells the story without regard for the niceties of strong character development or well-paced storytelling. In the entire series his only theatrical flourish is the use of a flashback format in the first half. Besides being a TV cliché (especially in nonfiction...
WHEN TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, died last week in Munich at the age of 76, an era in the history of sociology drew to a close. In a distinguished career of nearly half a century, Parsons, the first chairman of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, established sociology as a legitimate academic discipline that was simultaneously systematic and broad-ranging in scope. Through his translation of the German sociologist Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [The Theory of Social and Economic Organization], and, later, through the development of his own "structural-functional" theory, Parsons sought to provide scholars...
Instead of playing, Roberts missed several of the matches in California, as he was designated to repair the team van and do the squad's laundry. Bill Roberts' Harvard tennis career had come down to washing other people's jockstraps in a La Jolla laundromat...
...generate enormous letter-writing and telegram-sending campaigns. It was just such a business-inspired campaigns that helped defeat the Agency for Consumer Protection in the 95th Congress and led Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) to declare that he had "never seen such extensive lobbying" in his political career...