Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These two positions are as yet unfilled after the departure of Sidney Verba '53 and Edward L. Keenan Jr. '57-the former leaving the undergraduate post for the University Librarianship, the latter returning to the History Department after seven years at the helm of the grad school...
...taking over the Liberals' helm, Turner defeated Jean Chrétien, the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and a populist who is well regarded in English-speaking Canada as well as his native Quebec. In many respects Chrétien is a more engaging politician than Turner, who is sometimes described as cold and aloof. Turner benefited from the Liberals' longstanding tradition that the party's leadership should alternate between representatives of English-and French-speaking regions. Since Trudeau is from Quebec, the convention would have had to break with custom to choose Chrétien...
...deck," he recalled later. "The boat was sailing along really well and fast, and it was a nice feeling to be up there." That decision probably saved his life. "Those below did not stand a chance," said Philip Sefton, 22, also from Britain, who was at the helm. He described the deathly blow that struck the Marques 80 miles north of Bermuda: "It was totally unexpected. It was incredible in its velocity. It was a freak hurricane. The ship was on its side in less than ten seconds. She started to go under in 30 seconds. The squall knocked...
...assumed the position from George Bennett '33 in 1973, Putnam made the fairly radical decision to start up an in-house management group to handle Harvard's endowment, and the Harvard Management Company was born the next year--with a Putnam protege, Walter M. Cabot Jr. '55, at the helm...
...unquestionably belonged to Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh. The perverse joy that grand actor took in his character's sadism entirely dominated Clark Gable's conventionally heroic Fletcher Christian. In 1962, when Marlon Brando came on board for a star trip, his Mr. Christian took the helm, dramatically speaking, long before his character, leading the mutineers, had seized it. Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision to play the role as a mincing fop who warms to liberal consciousness when he contrasts the rigors of sailing under...