Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easy Time. Between the caviar and cognac, Philby managed to sandwich in a few new fascinating revelations about his past activities. He had worked, he claimed, with such unheralded British spies as Novelist Graham Greene ("he worked in intelligence") and the late Ian Fleming ("he was aide to the director of naval intelligence"). Furthermore, Fleming's James Bond "had an easy time of it: Bond's only worries were gay holidays and amorous intrigues." As for himself, Philby modestly admitted that, as chief of British intelligence operations in Washington in 1951, he had personally thwarted a CIA plot...
Convinced that the trend toward merger will continue, the American Association of Theological Schools has commissioned the research-consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., to study how seminary unions can be more carefully planned. Dr. Jesse H. Ziegler, executive director of the association, predicts that within the next 20 years most of North America's Protestant seminaries will have combined into 25 major ecumenical clusters...
...today's overcrowded art market, the museum director in search of new acquisitions finds himself in much the same position as a stockbroker in a runaway bull market. If he buys the current favorites, he will get popular pictures-at an inflated price. The cheaper but far riskier alternative is to buy undervalued art of a period or artist not yet discovered or out of fashion. This is the course chosen by Director Sherman Lee of Cleveland's Museum of Art, who invested the museum's $1,731,557 purchase fund for 1967 in 132 different works...
...nian workshops combined early Christian design with Saxon severity. Seven centuries later, Adam Lenckhardt used a single tusk of ivory to create a 17-in.-tall Descent from the Cross. Commissioned by the 17th century Prince Eusebius von Liechtenstein, the piece is unsurpassed among baroque ivory groups, accordingly to Director Lee. It is notable for its dulcet softness, subtlety and exquisite craftsmanship...
...more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director of Chicago's Center for New Music, puts it even more decisively: "The music had two directions to go-to get decadent or get longer...