Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALEXIS SOLOMOS Director Proskenion Theater Athens...
What may well be the most important power of a President, in the long run, is one that is neither defined nor even hinted at in the Constitution. "Presidential power," says Political Scientist Richard Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy Institute for Politics at Harvard, "is the power to persuade." Or, as Stanford Historian Thomas A. Bailey writes: "The Commander-in-Chief is also the Teacher-in-Chief. If he is to get the wheels to move and 'make things happen,' in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, he must educate the people...
...coalition of Communists, leftists and Socialists that has blocked almost all of his major reform legislation. Now the far left is making a determined grab for the reins of his own Christian Democratic Party. Six months ago, a rebel faction led by Jacques Chonchol, Frei's director of agricultural development, managed to ram through a party resolution permitting Castro's chief subversion agency in the Hemisphere, OLAS, to set up a branch office right in Santiago...
Next, as controlling director of the foundation, he appoints himself to do his regular work for the benefit of the foundation. For the work, the foundation pays him a relatively small salary, on which he pays income taxes. But the foundation also gives him fringe benefits, such as use of his car, a large life-insurance policy, perhaps even educational grants for his children...
...This was not a concert but a celebration of the affinities among the musicians," explained Pro Musica Director John White, who conceived the project. Actually, the quality of the program was as mixed as its media. The lighting effects eventually became tiresome distractions; the electronic sounds some-times rambled and screeched. Yet the shattering of conventional concert categories was exhilarating, and the music at its best did reach White's goal of achieving "some great moments," notably in a delightful collaboration between the Pro Musica and Circus Maximus on Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century song Douce Dame...