Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Formerly a full-time associate professor of Biology. Counter has been named to a half-time Med School associate professorship and the half-time Foundation directorship...
...whose 20 faculty fellows were quietly researching agricultural development programs in Kenya, trying to improvement in Mali, and sending teams to dig wells in the Sudan from the sixth floor of a tastefully modern office building on Cambridge St. But last winter, when President Bok offered the institute's directorship to Arnold C. Harberger, a University of Chicago economist who had been a consultant to Chile's repressive military regime, a storm of student and faculty protest went up, Harberger declined the position, and suddenly everybody had heard of HIID...
...sags until Frederick Neumann, as the John Huston-like director John Bean, takes things over. Neumann shines as the horny, hearty old American ("It's a simple name--I am a simple man.") whose vision of the revolution comprises mostly blood and tits; his prostrated plea for directorship of the film salvages the first act. Here, too, we learn the significance of the weighty title: "Washington" is to be the name of the film, and "has it legs?" is movie parlance for "will...
...Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops the action with the help of some redcoat extras. John Bean is accidentally bayonetted by his gaffer, and as he dies the directorship is passed on to blue-eyed, mindless Dan, squinting bravely into the spotlight...
...first meeting last May--at which Field announced his decision to step down from the directorship in 1983--the Board began to consider appointing separate directors under Field's authority for the two organizations that comprise CFA, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the Harvard College Observatory...