Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful device for adding to one's own status is to cut down the stature of your colleagues . . . and one most effective way to [do this] is to affect shocked surprise when a student cites another instructor. Just raise your eyebrows and say, with the proper emphasis, 'Did Professor Jones say that?' It is more devastating if you do not make any other comment, even if you could think...
...principle object of McDermott's attack was J. Raymond Walsh, an instructor in Economics who had been active in labor relations work. This activity at the time made him suspect of communist leanings. A bill for repeal passed the General Court but was vetoed by Governor Hurley on the grounds that the era was not one for "withdrawing the authority of the state...
Woolen Socks. Two years ago, after nearly two decades as an art instructor, Chapin gave up teaching to try what few artists west of New York have succeeded in achieving: supporting his wife and daughters (aged 14 and 16) by his painting. Now he spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder...
...manner and appearance, 50-year-old, white-haired George Denny, a onetime dramatics instructor, is a cross between Harry Truman and Dale Carnegie. He had been moderator of the show since it began. He got the basic idea when he heard a neighbor say he'd "rather be caught dead than listen to Roosevelt on the radio." Denny, who grew up as a Democrat in North Carolina but voted Republican in the last few presidential elections, got to wondering: "How can we get our neighbors to listen to the other side...
...addition to McKay, the special committee includes Karl Sax, professor of Botany; Alexander Gerschenkron, associate professor of Economics; John M. Roberts, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Arthur S. Maass, instructor in Government; Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science; George C. Homans '32, associate professor of Sociology; Edward L. Ullman, assistant professor of Regional Planning; and L. Don Leet, professor of Geology...