Word: everett
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Spotting Trends. Today, the school -now ensconced in modern brick and glass buildings in Greenwich Village -sticks closely to a strategic formula for success. Explains President John Everett, 57, a former chancellor of the City University of New York: "Other schools have professors who have never been in politics teaching political science. We want the person who has been a politician." Hence, faculty members-most of whom are part-time and untenured -tend to be well-known personalities in the metropolitan area. New York City Consumer Affairs Expert Elinor Guggenheimer teaches a course on the consumer and the marketplace; Village...
...Wallace, whose "Trust the People" billboard is plastered all over Southie, Somerville, East Boston, Everett and the North End, get his own diehard vote out to the polls in such areas...
...must ultimately decide these issues are likely to be swayed by rhetoric rather than by scientific fact because there is no easy way to sort out the facts in arguments between scientists. Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz, 62, thinks that he has a solution to the dilemma. Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, Mass., and one of the key engineers in the U.S. space program, would like to use the techniques of the courtroom to establish scientific fact. His idea: a court that would hear both sides in a scientific argument and render a public verdict on where...
...unctuous omniscient author. Bur he doesn't offer omniscience--only a combination of the tritest of truisms ("A young man's heart is...") and the most basic information ("A year later they were married.") The voice is Michael Hordern's and he sounds a lot like the late Edward Everett Horton narrating Fractured Fairy Tales early Saturday morning...
...kind of person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year-old son struck angrily at the TV set when his father, Jay Rockefeller, was interviewed because the child saw him more on the tube than in person. Joan Kennedy...