Word: facelifting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given to impromptu press conferences at which she appears without television makeup. Embarrassed by the bags beneath her eyes that looked particularly heavy under bright TV lights, Byrne, 45, slipped into a hospital over Thanksgiving for a facelift. Reappearing in public last week, the mayor said nothing about her operation but was unperturbed when photographers rushed to record her new, more youthful look...
Spaulding also has praise for Silber--she says he attracted outstanding professors and gave the university an organizational facelift--but now she believes he should be dismissed. "Its's time for someone else," she adds...
...course, Silber's administration is not without its achievements. His organizational skills and reputation for academic brilliance initially gave B.U. a facelift and injected it with new credibility. But the authoritarian atmosphere at B.U. has overridden these gains and the tension and turmoil have at times made a shambles of the educational process. The extraordinary situation at B.U. can be repaired only under a new president. We urge the B.U. trustees to listen to the university's student body and faculty and dismiss John Silber...
After 24 seasons of competition in the facility named after former Harvard quarterback Donald C. Watson '16, the arctic, dimly-lit, cavernous rink was only a memory. In its place, thanks to a $2.8 million facelift, stood the new Alexander H. Bright Hockey Center...
Maybe so. The Board claims it has been working hard since 1977 to give Radcliffe a much-needed facelift. One obvious change in Radcliffe is a bureaucratic one. While the Harvard Corporation seems to prefer a low profile, the Radcliffe Trustees are actively soliciting student and community input. Student representatives attend the four annual Board meetings and the Board sends representatives to neighborhood council meetings in Cambridge, Susan Storey Lyman '49, chairman of the Board, says Radcliffe feels a strong need to avoid the "town-gown" problem characteristic of the relationship between Harvard and Cambridge. "We've learned from Harvard...