Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite her indignation, Himmelfarb does not want to suppress these new forms; what she opposes is their domination of the profession. Part of the profession, anyway: in the publishing marketplace, traditional history still fares quite well. In the work of historians as diverse as, say, Daniel Boorstin and Barbara Tuchman, the traditional practices of storytelling, political analysis and moral judgment are all flourishing. But if the fads of the new history continue to blight the academic scene, Himmelfarb argues, we will be threatened with a profound loss: "We will lose not only the unifying theme that has given coherence...
...characters. There is Jake (Chad Raphael), the Violent Drifter, who has just beaten his wife, Flighty But Passionate Beth (Heather Gunn), so mercilessly that he thinks he has killed her. Their respective families run to their aid. On Jake's side there's his Loyal But Timid brother Frankie (Daniel Hurewitz), his Embittered sister Sally (Diane Paulus), and his Oedipally Overnurturing Mother Lorraine (Susan Schwartz). Their counterparts in Beth's family are her Vengeful brother Mike (Sam Sifton), her Death-Obsessed Hunter father Baylor (Jon Tolins), and her Fearful And Self-Deluding mother Meg (Jenny Lyn Bader...
Unlike her predecessor, Vice President for Finance Robert Scott, Zeckhauser also will oversee HRE, a job currently performed by Vice President Daniel Steiner '54. In placing HRE, the Harvard Planning Department, and the Facilities and Maintenance Department all under one administrator for the first time, it appears that the administration is continuing its effort to make the University's real estate operations an integral part, rather than a satellite, of the University. We only can hope that the administration does not mean by this promotion that it wants to extend HRE's way of doing business across the rest...
...Burn and Daniel Burke, Secretary of the Treasury of Boston's School Board and teacher in the Roxbury school district, feel that education is the third key issue for these areas. Burke said Flynn's success among his Black constituency is in part due to the appointment of Laval Wilson, who is the first Black superintendent of Boston schools...
...course -- because the joint is bound to be packed with publicists, photo opportunists and blaring life-stylists. The manufacture of quick and disposable illusions is an overwhelming reality in an era when the concept of image is replacing the value of reputation. What Historian Daniel J. Boorstin called pseudo events 25 fleeting years ago are now accepted as genuine occurrences that shape politics, economics, culture and the way individuals experience the world or, more important, choose...