Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record executive named Goddard Lieberson was resting up after a tough round of business meetings one day last year, his feet on his desk, his mind on a fascinating subject-the Civil War. It was, he decided, perhaps the best-documented war in history, with reams of personal memoirs and volumes of battle detail, campaign maps, bales of drawings and photographs. But suddenly he realized that something was missing: sound. With that thought, Columbia Records Executive Vice President Lieberson launched into a year's research that took him through libraries and across old battle grounds. When he was through...
Choking Classics. Diskman Lieberson, 43, has found time to write a novel (3 for Bedroom C), start a play and marry famed Dancer Vera Zorina. Lately, he spends less and less time in the glass-fronted control booth supervising recording sessions, more and more behind his desk thinking up new ideas. Although he recorded Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and all the quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok, Lieberson discovered gradually that "it is becoming almost bourgeois to do contemporary music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take...
While his office will consult with Dean Bender over the admission of sophomores, the Office of Advanced Standing will have sole responsibility for admitting eleventh graders, Hanson explained. It is his job to forret out specially qualified juniors from applications reaching his desk...
...paper work still covers his desk, and if you drop in to talk to him, he will apologize for his rolled-up shirt sleeves and be most glad to discuss anything but himself through a smile at the corners of his mouth. His appointment to follow Hooton, he says, is the accomplishment of which he is proudest. And while the door of Room 56 in the Peabody Museum still has the late professor's name painted on the glass, a member of the anthropology faculty points out, "Howells is the one unique person who could have stepped in here...
...Lamont can remain both a first-class library during regular hours, and a welcome if not glorified study hall afterwards. Checkout Desk Three could be manned by a smaller staff after 10, and the Desk One door could be closed at that hour. Similarly, there is no need to staff the Poetry Room after regular hours, so personnel costs could be cut further. Such a study hall system could even be extended to Sundays during the entire year...