Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway melodrama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wisdom Bridge Theater, which last year toured in Britain and played a summer season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, this week is reviving a much praised multimedia Hamlet. Directed by Robert Falls (who last month shifted from the artistic directorship of Wisdom Bridge to the same slot at the bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors and a staging of King Claudius' taking power as a press conference resonant of Watergate. The initial run starred doe-eyed, victim-like Aidan Quinn...
Several Asian-American students have expressed concern about the search for a new director, however. They say they are troubled by the departure of Jean Wu, who served as associate director of the Bureau under Morimoto and was passed over for the directorship during an earlier round of the replacement search. With Wu' departure, there are no Asian-American administrators in the College, the students say (see accompanying article...
...would say with typical self-effacement. "I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play." His businesslike podium manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that was the joy of his adopted city and the despair of orchestras everywhere else...
Much of the credit for the Peace Corps's rejuvenation must go to Loret Ruppe, 47, a managerial whiz who became director of the agency in 1981. The wife of former six-term Michigan Congressman Philip Ruppe, she jockeyed for the directorship while serving as chairman of the Michigan campaign for George Bush in 1980. After President Reagan appointed her, Ruppe used her formidable Administration connections to fend off proposals to cut about 10% from the Peace Corps budget, which totals $128.6 million for the current fiscal year. She argued that the agency represented the best of American volunteerism...
...astronomical sightings were handled primarily by the Harvard Observatory. In 1964, a leading Denmark observatory announced that it could no longer successfully operate the Bureau, and it transferred the program to the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. One year later, Professor of Astronomy Owen J. Gingerich assumed the directorship of the Bureau, and Marsden took over the reigns...