Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than merely preserving Disney as a dusty institution, though, Eisner and company have reanimated its fantasy factory with their own ideas. Such characters as Mickey, Donald and Pluto are now being joined by the likes of Roger Rabbit, Webbigail VanderQuack and Georgette the poodle. From movies to theme parks...
Yet when Roy Disney proposed a new management with Eisner as chairman and Wells as president, some company directors objected. According to Journalist John Taylor in his 1987 book, Storming the Magic Kingdom, they saw Eisner as an idea man who would be too inexperienced as an administrator and financier...
From 1937, when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered, until, say, the mid-'60s, Walt's entertainment edifice was a unique institution -- a cathedral of popular culture whose saints were mice and ducks, virgin princesses and lurking sprites, little boys made of wood and little girls lost in wonderland...
The controversy over the roles of the two boards has existed throughout Harvard's history, and is unique to Harvard--the only educational institution with two distinct governing bodies. The Board of Overseers--which consists of 30 alumni elected for five-year terms, the president and the University treasurer--was...
"People should be out working for something more substantial," Buchanan said. "It's kind of a contradiction working for a shelter. It's become an accepted institution for society to put people out of the way."