Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final analysis, such mediating efforts did not prove sufficient to avert the crisis of last April. That this was so should be no reflection on the ability or good faith of Dean Glimp, but rather a comment on the enormity of the demands placed upon universities such as Harvard in this era, and on the limits of universities, as complex organizations, to respond to demands as quickly as some might wish...
Harvard's loss to Leander was only one part of the blackest day for America in several years at Henley: seven United States entries had survived until the final two rounds last Saturday; only one, a Virginia high-school eight, won any championship that afternoon...
...hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure of organized medicine and a handful of conservative Congressmen. Knowles was dumped and Finch humiliated...
...from over. Recently, the associate producer of Isadora, Universal Pictures, hacked away 39 minutes without the assent of Director Karel Reisz. But for The Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger achieved total freedom. "United Artists didn't come near me," he boasts. And Paramount Pictures has granted Mike Nichols final authority over Catch-22. It is happily in the French tradition that the facts are finally catching up with the auteur theory...
...final picture of Spender may be the self-portrait that shows him at the Sorbonne, still full of good will but revolutionized almost to tears. "One longed," he says, "to hear a professor talk for half an hour about Racine...