Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Yasser Arafat is subject to a constituency that can usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality; rarely does he command. Some say he has survived as leader after nine years mostly because he must spend his time moderating instead of moving too far front...
...created four deanships under his direction to handle four specific areas of concern--finance and business, students and alumni, academic programs, and medical services. Ebert's administrative set-up had less structure; when he retired after 12 years as dean, the school's administration had more informal lines of command...
...mixture of nonchalance and sassiness, a staged prelude to the actor's ultimate triumph. But Phillips's acting is always passive; like Nureyev, the former member of the Mamas and Papas finds herself in the midst of an unfamiliar medium of entertainment, and only a director completely in command of his work could have furnished the guidance that Phillips so badly needed...
Meanwhile, the Syrians have looked the other way as the Palestinian command in West Beirut sent troops, ammunition and food supplies south across the Litani River. One of the Christians' goals in the recent fighting was to break out a route to the sea and establish a base near the Israeli border to receive supplies by ship from Jounieh in the north. That failed...
...smoky, hooded voice seemed to come from some atomic source within her. It floated dramatic feeling to the audience in ways that sometimes seemed inappropriate to the part but were compelling beyond measure. In Callas' lifetime, only Beverly Sills came close to matching her ability to command and convey emotion, from sizzling rage to intimate tenderness...