Word: demureness
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Gerrity and other administrators demur when asked to cite specific recruiting efforts that have broken down over the issues of salary. "There are all kinds of reasons people withdraw from being considered for tenured openings," says Robert Kaufman. Gerrity's predecessor as associate dean for financial affairs. And officials flatly deny that any professor has ever left Harvard out of dissatisfaction with his salary. "I've been dean for nine years," says Rosovsky, "and I can't think of a single individual who left here on a salary issue...
...wrote for the Boston Phoenix earlier this year, I can only conclude that Mr. Edelstein sees me as another of these "less literate disciples" of Mr. Simon's. I would readily admit to being less literate than Mr. Simon; as to being a follower of his, I would respectfully demur. But does it really matter? More to the point, I am hurt and chagrined to be assailed in such a surreptitious way by a fellow critic for whom I have only the profoundest respect...
...prey. This cultural resistance movement is causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know who is responsible for this," said Olde Towne Tennis Shop Manager Marilyn Anderson. "We like the es. It's part of the town's heritage." The city's official guidebooks demur. Says Alexandria Travel Guide Helen Judy: "The official spelling is Old Town...
...though controlled by fellow Democrats, has shredded some of his major proposals. "His first seven months were a total loss," admits Senate President William Brotherton, a Rockefeller ally. "He's not flamboyant, and that's a drawback. He states the facts like an accountant." Rockefeller does not demur from this judgment, but he likes to remind people, fairly enough, that he still has three years to go in his first term...
Turning to its countrywide list of 200 candidates, the committee diligently narrowed its choices to six by November and then, last week, to one. Offered the job again, John Wilson did not demur. He thus became a striking exception to the recent trend in university presidencies, which have been going to people in their late 30s to early 50s. Nonetheless, his appearance-a thick shock of silvery hair, bushy eyebrows and square-set jaw-belies...