Word: deane
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...assessed at $220,000, and the tax, which was up to $4,000 last year, was slated to more than double?to $8,300. "We see waste in the school system every day," she contends. "At 15 or more high schools, there's a dean for every grade, plus a head dean for the deans. At one school they had enough money to buy six electric typewriters, so they did?even though there was only one typist. Money is allotted for summer school mainly so more teachers can have jobs. And instead of teaching remedial reading, they teach backpacking...
Becoming a bard in 20th century America was not easy. O'Callahan started out as dean of a Boston secretarial school founded by his father. Eight years ago, a group of children at a camp asked him to tell them a story. He wove a druidic spell for 35 minutes, making up the story as he went along. It was about a creature in Russia that set upon other animals. "The impact was tremendous," he recalls. "Then and there I decided to give up my job and write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass...
...immunities exist. The higher orders may, for example, appear through a curtain, unannounced, in the middle of a Johnny Carson show, exciting little whoops of recognition and incredulity in the audience. (Bob Hope may always do that; Don Rickles can get away with it.) The middle orders make the Dean Martin roast, regularly inhabit the "People" pages of magazines and newspapers. All enjoy, at least for a time, immunity from the agent's call proposing that they do an American Express commercial: "Remember me? I used...
...Formerly, the transfer process used to be a significant hassle," Spence says. If a student wished to transfer, he put his name down on a list at the office of Eleanor C. Marshall, former assistant to the dean of the College for housing, and hoped for the best...
...Dean Rosovsky balanced the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in fiscal 1977, the first time anyone had turned that trick in seven years. The dean's secret was a series of careful budget cuts. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, warned students that. "This community will have to get used to the notion that everything is not in arm's reach...