Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game was at least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then claw it out for most of the other medals with her teammate and nonfriend the formidable German-Swiss Maria Walliser...
...last week it seemed that chambermaids were fighting duels and delivery boys declaiming soliloquies. Not quite; the supporting actors who won were authentic first-seed skiers, delivering the message that there was too much talent for one or two superstars to dominate. Still, the surprise was genuine as West German Marina Kiehl won the downhill and a pair of strong Austrians, Anita Wachter and Sigrid Wolf, took the combined (a parlay of downhill and slalom) and the / super-G (a compressed, curvier downhill). Walliser managed a bronze in the combined and Figini a silver in the super-G, but interest...
...There is a group of women just beginning tomake their mark felt," says Judith L. Ryan,professor of German and comparative literature."It is simply inherent that the increase willbring with it a lot more candidates for thesesenior positions...
...Publication is really the only criteria fortenure," says Professor of German Maria M. Tatar,the chairman of the Germanic Languages andLiterature Department. Hiring decisions at Harvardare often based on a single criterion--the amountand quality of published research. And faculty saythat the other skills Harvard's junior womenfaculty have cultivated are consequently devaluedin the tenure decision process, as a result ofthis reliance on the candidate's bibliography...
...special concentration allows her to get both a liberal arts education and the training she needs for music. "I wanted to learn the languages necessary, history and fundamental music background." Her program has entailed studying French, German and Italian as well as personal voice coaching from Professor of Music Earl Kim. One of her projects was an attempt to transcribe music passed down orally in her family from her great-great-grandfather who was a cantor in Russia, she says...