Word: directorships
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...Harvard job is, after all, different than the directorship of OSI, when Ryan could share cigarettes with cabinet-level Soviet officials. Now, Ryan spends part of his time working in cooperation with the firm of Melick and Porter in the farm leagues of law--personal injury suits brought against the University...
Before De Gennaro came aboard, the librarystaff fought against two previous candidates forthe directorship De Gennaro ultimatelyassumed--candidates whom they considered mediocre."We wanted him to come," Freitag says. "We wantedhim to make the changes...
Gustav Mahler was a peripheral figure until the early 1960s, when Leonard Bernstein combined his directorship of the New York Philharmonic with a CBS recording contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath...
Harvard lured this intellectual luminary to Cambridge by offering him the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and an undoubtedly substantial salary. Now the administration must prove it can attract lesser-known junior faculty in the field. Two professors do not a department make, even if one of them is among the best in the business. And Harvard has a responsibility to develop younger scholars in the field--not merely to raid the upper echelons of other universities' faculties...
...would not have taken the directorship if I had not strong assurances from the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] of their strong support for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies," Graham says...