Word: heydays
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Where have all the scholars gone? In its heyday, the Corporation boasted an impressive array of nationally recognized academics. Now, the roster of bigwigs has whittled its academic number down to one (other than Summers): the mighty Hanna H. Gray, a historian and former president of the University of Chicago. She is also the only woman on the body of seven, and she can’t be far from retirement. The Corporation needs to bolster its academic ranks, and fast. With Winokur’s departure, it has the opportunity...
Today, a century after his heyday, it is hard to grasp the immense influence Kipling wielded through his words and images. Mark Twain described him as "the only living person not head of a nation, whose voice is heard around the world the moment it drops a remark." It's a measure of this balanced book that Gilmour puts Kipling firmly in the context of his time but does not attempt to defend the indefensible. As he stresses, Kipling - ever the realist - touched real chords in the British psyche during the first 40 years of his life. Later...
...moving company interrupted the production line and began unbolting machinery from the floor. The workers drove out the intruders, guarded the premises around the clock and began looking around for help. Some went to the Worker's Cultural Palace Park, a recreation center built for the proletariat during the heyday of communism. Today it's a gathering place for angry, unemployed laborers. A dozen workers volunteered to help occupy Wang's factory...
DIED. LAWRENCE TIERNEY, 82, actor; in Los Angeles. A consummate B-movie tough guy, Tierney played the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, in addition to roles in more than 70 other films. His drinking landed him in bar brawls and headlines in his midcentury heyday, and eventually sidelined his career. A comeback in the '80s and '90s culminated in his role as a gang leader in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime drama Reservoir Dogs...
...dolled up the fivesome in worn denim and messy hair, plopped them on a sidewalk stoop and photographed them in black and white for an album cover worthy of The Strokes. And why not? If that band can make it big with throwbacks to punk’s heyday and a hype campaign to embarrass the Y2K virus, why can’t Phantom Planet be the next group to jump on the “saving rock” bandwagon...