Word: directorships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...have to do with the orchestra, though. Having previously decried artistic intolerance in others, Sellars demonstrated himself as a hypocrite of the worst sort, insulting the validity of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Society, cast and material both. It's true that Mr. Sellars was refused the directorship of a G&S production as an undergraduate: his subsequent poorly-reviewed production of an adulterated Mikado demonstrated why. But to hold a grudge against an uninvolved party because of thwarted aspirations of years before is not only unmerited, but unbelievable. How Sellars has succeeded (as some might claim) in the professional...
...when he was offered an assistant directorship with the Peace Corps in Nepal, he took it--partially because he realized that he "couldn't make a living off of commercials...
After two years, when Sternin felt it was time to move on, he accepted a teaching position at Concord Academy. When his feet began to itch again, Sternin left to take a Peace Corps directorship in Africa, where he stayed until the academic life beckoned...
Following his directorship at CERN from 1961-65. Weisskopf returned to MIT to teach before retiring...