Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistake to dismiss the book as a male chauvinist oink--it winds up as just that, I suppose, yet it's such a lovingly reasoned and felt-out explanation of how he does feel...
These actions come in the wake of the announcement by Stanford president, Richard W. Lyman, that he supported the findings of a faculty board of inquiry which called for Franklin's ouster. Lyman's decision made it virtually certain that the Board of Trustees will vote to dismiss Franklin when they meet to decide the case January...
...took an awful lot of arrogance for Arnold Schoenberg to dismiss the historical tradition of music and invent an entirely new one. Of course there are uses for the twelve-tone system. For a composer like Alberto Ginastera, who always sets extremely violent texts to music, the system becomes rather appropriate. There is also Alban Berg, especially in Lulu, and Luigi Dallapiccola. To me, these three are the most impressive twelve-tone composers. My feeling is that the twelve-tone system is incapable of expressing anything but violence...
...Corporation's decision last week to dismiss the grievances brought by three senior professors at the Graduate School of Design against Maurice D. Kilbridge, the dean of the School, demonstrates once again the futility of challenging from below the administrative structure of a self-contained community such as Harvard. In declining to address itself to the larger and more important issue of Kilbridge's overall performance as dean, the Corporation has substituted an inadequate institutional decision which upholds the Dean's action on six separate counts by imposing the strictest possible interpretation of the Statutes of the University...
Four of seven School Committee members support the motion to remove Frisoli. The four--supported by the Cambridge Civic Association in last November's election--pledged during the campaign to dismiss Frisoli...