Word: helm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Garden. A boat by Bill Garden, says one of his admirers, "always seems to fit into the tradition of the Grand Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...
While Rosenthal gives the Press the firm publishing mind at the helm that it has lacked, the new Director's greatest strength is his view of the Press's future. Already he has introduced and put into effect new projects that will expand the horizons of the Press...
When Eugene Carson Blake left the helm of the United Presbyterian Church in 1966 to become head of the World Council of Churches, he and his church were in the middle of the principal movements of the decade. His proposal to unite Protestants into a big new church had attracted ten denominations with 25 million members, his prospering Presbyterians had just fashioned an up-to-date creed, and their ample, well-financed bureaucracy was in the forefront of the social crusades...
After almost four decades at the helm, Eugene Ormandy at 73 commands an orchestra that remains a patrician marvel, even though Ormandy's interpretations occasionally tend to be more like glossy prints than the real music...
...Corporation's actions so far this Spring represent a drastic shift from two years ago. Those were the days when President Pusey was still at the helm and relatively innocuous shareholder resolutions at General Motors were deemed too radical. If one accepts the Bok Administration's premise that Harvard can act most responsibly by retaining its stocks and trying to influence management through proxies and other means, then the President is due some credit for Harvard's reversal since...