Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shared appointments have their drawbacks for the couples. Tenure becomes a mid-career crisis; most colleges refuse to split a tenured post, so each partner must be considered separately. Professional jealousy can erupt between the sharers. Says Courtney Gordon: "You have to be noncompetitive in terms of your job?and have a very strong marriage." Another problem: it is virtually impossible to leave the office behind. The Grubers, for example, agreed initially that there would be no shop talk at meals. But after "a number of silent dinners," they gave in, and have never regretted it. Indeed, says Marjorie Woods...
...last," she says. "I guess I still do sometimes." She turns down most of the scripts she receives, chews her fingernails, and jogs five miles a day. "It's an incredible high when you hit your third wind," she says. In a sense, she is summing up her career. After years of just running around, Clayburgh has hit her third wind and is flying high...
Novelist Granam Greene, 73, is entering the 50th year of a charmed career. Since publication of The Man Within in 1929, he has achieved critical and popular success. Among the English writers of Greene's generation, only Evelyn Waugh was more skillful at moving a narrative with brief, dramatic scenes. Yet Greene's contributions have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring...
...armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...
Recently, the activities committee has focused on events within the University, such as a weekend trip to Yale and a career symposium...