Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career diplomat for 32 years, Sullivan graduated from Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and joined the State Department in 1947 after a three-year stint in the Navy. His first overseas assignment, to Thailand, was followed by posts in Calcutta, Tokyo, Rome and The Hague. In 1962 he was tapped as deputy of the American delegation to the Laos neutrality conference in Geneva by then Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman,who admired ability "to see the other fellow's point of view...
Since taking over as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan last July, Adolph Dubs, 58, an affable 29-year career diplomat known to all as "Spike," had traveled a similar route to his office every day, without a security escort and without incident. There was a winding drive from his residence, skirting the old bazaar district, then a fast stretch to his embassy on the edge of Kabul. Last week Dubs' routine led to his abduction and death−and an international uproar that put still more stress on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...more orthodox figurative art, there is no lack. Philip Pearlstein, that master of the art school nude−the flesh always rendered cold, the formality of the body emphasized by photographic-style cropping−has produced one of the best paintings of his career in Female Model on Platform Rocker, 1977 -78, with its uneasily tilting floor line and stutter of shadows cast by the slats of the chair across the pale wall. California's Robert Graham is represented by a group of his small, fragmentary bronze torsos, minutely finished, imbued with something of the erotic dandyism...
...provides a few libidinous moments; a lesbian disco dance scene has its peculiar charms. But The Warriors is not lively enough to be cheap fun or thoughtful enough to be serious. Walter Hill, the talented director of Hard Times, the 1975 boxing movie, badly needs a direction to his career...
Captain John Havens clinched the team win with an impressive victory at number one. Taking over the top position for the injured Mike Desaulniers, the three-time all-Ivy champion ended his amazing college career by smoking Eli Dave Barrett in straight games...