Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle. He is the field marshal for the downtrodden, having assembled 185 organizations into a budget coalition to contend with Ronald Reagan, who does not smoke but who happens to wear a dinner jacket just as often and rides in a chauffeured Cadillac limousine...
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, who organized the 20-year effort to raise the $1 million necessary for the chair, yesterday said Kestnbaum was active in many areas of business and politics. He added that the holder of the position could teach at the Business School, the Kennedy School or the College...
...holder of the Crimson outdoor record as well when he graduated in 1976, Embree put the team ahead of his individual exploits, according to field events coach Ed Stowell. "Mel was just one solid individual, and quite an all-around athlete, a high jumper, long jumper and triple jumper," Stowell says. "In a meet against Army his senior year, he triple-jumped even though he was hurt because the team needed it--and the Olympic trials were only two or three weeks away. He was quite a team player...
DIED. Clair Farrand, 85, holder of more than 250 patents for inventions including the cone radio loudspeaker (which supplanted earphones and horn speakers), an electronic measuring device used in computer memories and submarine navigation, and optical technologies used in range finders, bombsights and periscopes; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and other 19th-century romantic composers expanded the use of register, texture and tone quality to define their music, rather than depending on notes and rhythms, Charles Rosen, professor of music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holder of the 1980-81 Norton Chair in poetry, told an audience of 500 at Paine Hall yesterday...