Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford said that instead of a specifically literary or historical chair, he would perfer a chair modelled along the lines of the C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, now held by Laurence Wylie. He said such a designation would allow more flexibility in courses offered in the field, and in the selection of a man to fill the chair...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Columbia; four records, $15) explodes with the same stinging ferocity in the living room that it has on stage. The poisoned rapiers are words, and they are wielded with lethal skill by the original cast: Arthur Hill, Uta Hagen, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon. Those who wish to achieve a malignantly Woolfish rapport may duplicate the time scheme of the play by tinkling the ice cubes and spinning the disks, starting about 2:30 a.m. Match the cast drink for drink and watch the 5:30 dawn come up like anathema...
Historic Drop. The sweeping U.S. money-policy change climaxed a yearlong backstairs dispute in Washington and represented a victory by Walter Heller's activist Council of Economic Advisers over the more conservative Treasury. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has been worried that even in direct controls on capital movements might cause foreigners to fear that stiffer controls were coming, and thus precipitate a run on the dollar. Under Secretary Robert Roosa was opposed to any U.S. drawing from the IMF. The Treasury learned only recently that it had lost the battle inside the Administration, was given the job of drafting...
...went on to engage such temporary teachers as Leon Trotsky and James Joyce. Using The Method, native-born instructors today speak in class only the language they teach, forbid English, repeat constantly, and guide befuddled beginners with props and pictures. Nelson Rockefeller learned his Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does not debate the point; but it does claim that it can help a businessman close a deal by giving...
...deal more than was asked. The fund to create new academic chairs surpassed its goal by more than 20 per cent. Nineteen new chairs have been created with funds given to the Program, including the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professorship, the Aga Kahn Professorship of Iranian studies, and the Dillon Chairs of French Civilization and International Relations...