Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special interest, perhaps, is a certain Aldo who preserves the celebrity faces of the current television season, along with other worthies, in paint on little flat rocks. He calls it "rock-art," and among the offerings we found that afternoon were Gerald R. Ford, Ed Asner, the gruff editor of Mary Tyler Moore fame, a rock with Mike on it (Douglas, that is), Merv (Griffin), even one with Pat Mitchell (I know who she is but I'm not sure what to call whatever it is that she does). Even Mary Hartman was preserved on stone. The only face missing...
...committee members themselves seem less sure of the facts and much more ambivalent about the decision to drop the course than Byker implies. Max Hall, editor for the social sciences of the Harvard University Press and one of the six faculty members of the expository writing committee, said last week that he wasn't even sure whether the journalism option was being offered this year. "Although as far as I know," he said, "we've been moving in a direction of reducing 'specialized' courses...
Another aspect of the journalism option that set it aside from other expos offerings is that students worked closely with part-time and former professional writers and editors. "Professional practicing writers, like professional practicing pianists, probably make better teachers than those who are not working directly in their field," John Bethell '54, editor of Harvard Magazine and creator of the journalism option in 1968, said...
Robbins, now teaching at the Radcliffe Institute, is a professional editor who is currently writing a textbook called "Finding Your Style," affirmed Bethell's view...
...more, it appears, doctors and professors in prestigious universities are adopting Davis's contention that the standards of excellence are being waived too often for minority students. Articles in The New Republic and Newsweek this summer noted Davis's support in other medical schools. In addition, George Richardson, the editor of the Medical School Alumni Bulletin, reports that he believes many of Harvard Med School's alumni would probably sympathize with Davis's views. Dr. F. Sargent Cheever, director of medical school admissions, says Davis did a service in pointing out possible problems with the medical school admissions policies...