Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case with so many presidential appointments, Bok's selection became the focus for two different questions-what is an ideal president? and who is an ideal president? By speaking publicly to the first, the Corporation members remained free to discuss the second amongst themselves...
...vote was 53 to 24 -the remainder preferred to maintain the locus quo. The delegates who favored a relocation grouped around predictably political lines. All but one of the eight Arab diplomats who responded to TIME'S poll wanted out. Four of the five Communists who agreed to discuss the question also wanted...
...just instituted a Ph.D. in jazz composition. As recently as 1967, only one U.S. college-North Texas State-offered a major in jazz. This year ten colleges are awarding jazz degrees. Other schools offer swinging seminars by guest "professors" like Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry and Billy Taylor who discuss such vital matters as the trumpet lip trill and, almost as important, how to sign a contract...
...guests for his show, but he has now given that responsibility largely to his executive producer, John Gilroy. A staff of 29 people?many of whom seem to be merely decorative, but very decorative, young women?put the show together. Gilroy meets with his staff each morning to discuss the booking of guests. In his office there is a huge display of file cards listing the guests' names; the cards are shuffled constantly to produce the best mix ("A good dinner party," says one staffer). "Talent coordinators" are then assigned to prepare brief dossiers on the guests. At one time...
Watson also said that he thinks the coaches' efforts are counterproductive at this point. "We didn't even discuss it because we knew the Presidents would turn it down," he remarked. "When they're emphatic about something you don't keep needling them. 'Don't kick a dead horse,' we told the coaches. It's like a boy who keeps asking for candy. After a while his father gets damn sore. Well, the Presidents are getting to that stage. It's like an old sausage machine-year after year the coaches talk about the same old issues...