Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort, director Stephen Michaels successfully skirted more difficulties than he has faced head on, and the result is a definite success. The extent of the success is a measure both of the good theatrical judgment of Michaels and his company, and of the tremendous virtue of those elements of the text--the love plots, the broad verbal humor, and the many options for comic stage business--which this production plays...
...effective discovery courses have been. Spot checks, however, indicate that students who have mastered the new approach do well on college entrance exams and have little difficulty in their college science courses-even though these rarely employ the discovery method. Such students, contends Dr. Keith Kelson, deputy associate director of the National Science Foundation, "no longer accept flat statements from professors-they have a distinct show-me-and-prove-it attitude...
Humhprey Doermann, a member of the admissions committee and former admissions director, explains that the docket system avoids the possibility of admitting so many, say, from the West Coast--which the committee considers first--that there will be no room left in the class when the committee gets further east, in which case the members might get progressively stricter. This could, of course, also be avoided by not classifying the students geographically at all. But that, officials say, would be administractively inconvenient. The advocate system depends on having applicants grouped by area so the advocate can visit their schools...
Lest we forget, these men are peculiarly American monsters. Mayer, through dialog, and director Thomas Babe through blocking, try two things simultaneously: to recreate the detail and language of the period, and to define a kind of American epic...
...Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology and Director of Research at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, has been appointed the first incumbent of the S. Burt Wolbach Professorship in Pathology at Harvard...