Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With complete self-assurance Raeburn painted them all. In nearly 1,000 portraits he set down, with strong...
...time or with any one student, any of these advisers may cross over into the other's territory with no thought at all about a theory of advising. An advising system as amorphous as this is bound to have some weak links in the chain of command. Although the advisers are given detailed information about course requirements of various misunderstand regulations or who are simply uninterested. Although the advisers are given detailed information about course requirements of various fields of concentration, there are always some who misunderstand regulations or who are simply uninterested. Although the Deans' Office attempts to match...
Belay That Yo-Yo. The Navy was still trying to protect the Marines on Guadalcanal and gain control of the South Pacific when Burke was assigned to command Destroyer Squadron 23, which operated with Rear Admiral "Tip" Merrill's cruiser Task Force 39. Typically, Burke first set about building morale, christening DesRon 23 the "Little Beavers" after a comic-strip character, and making a deal with Merrill's well-stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when...
...Good. Whatever its demerits, Op-23 did give Burke an unequaled opportunity to study his Navy and decide where it should head, once past its crisis. When he took command as CNO. it was far from where he thought it should be. Against a growing Russian submarine threat-an estimated 400 subs, about 150 of them modern, long-range boats-the Navy was, and is, behind in its antisubmarine development. Although beautiful, new supersonic jet aircraft were on the drawing boards and at test centers, the Navy's jet design lagged behind the Air Force, and behind the more...
...best efforts last week television dropped the boy-meets-girl formula in favor of separating the sexes. The women took superb command in Maurice Evans' production of The Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial...