Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter F. Clifton'49, executive director of the Fund said members of the group each contribute at least $5000 annually, $10,000 during their reunion years to Harvard...
Frequently, however, the comments are less flippant. She recalls a beloved director early in her career and his conviction that she would become a star, and she adds "I have worked continuously, but I was not able to live out his dreams for me as an actress." She imagines a less-beloved director in the less distant past classifying her as a "talented but disappointed actress...
...what you will against Hitler, but he could have taught producer Lew Grade and director Franklin J. Schaffner a thing or two about captivating an audience. He would have told them that manipulation requires careful pacing, a dash of wit, and a lot of fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...
...diplomats began telling jokes about Chavez's tale, saying it was a CIA propaganda ploy to induce more Russians to defect. Another diplomat quipped that perhaps there should be a new bumper sticker proclaiming: DEFECTORS HAVE MORE FUN. In Washington, the CIA saw less to be amused about. Director Stansfield Turner explained that while Shevchenko "is receiving compensation from the CIA commensurate with his services and value to the U.S.," he is getting nothing for a "female companion." Jimmy Carter got into the act by observing at his press conference that sums such as those reported by Chavez "would...
...county health board is trying to evict Osterberg from his home, maintaining that the coop is too small and too primitive for human habitation because it has no toilet or running water. Says County Health Director Alfred Ahern: "You can't live like Pappy did on the frontier." But Osterberg argues that the absence of running water is no health threat because he uses the bathroom of a college building five blocks away. He has no intention of flying the coop, and is appealing the eviction order in court...