Word: knacks
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University presidents, outspoken professors, even rebellious students-all have a knack for getting noticed. Yet, except in rare moments of acute controversy, the men and women who are technically at the top of the nation's huge state-university systems are the least known figures in academe's power structure. And the least rewarded. The state-university regents read reams of reports, worry endlessly over their university's business, scurry to meetings and ceremonies. In return they get only free campus parking, a few choice football tickets, and perhaps their names, in fine print, on a building...
...scriptwriters, must also be commended for the judicious selection of dialogue fragments here. Often, in Bloom's imaginings, single faces fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born out of bedlock ... Ambidexterity...
Although he is no windmill-tilting crusader, Bob Haack will bring to the Big Board presidency a deep knowledge of the securities business and a proven knack for prudent reform. An amiable, soft-spoken man with a ready smile, Haack was born in Milwaukee, graduated from Michigan's Hope College and Harvard Business School, in 1940 joined the Wisconsin Co., a Milwaukeebased investment banking firm, as a $125-a-month securities analyst. After a Navy hitch in the South Pacific during World War II, Haack returned to the firm-subsequently renamed Robert W. Baird & Co.-and worked in underwriting...
...mile, Princeton star Richie Geisel has not shown Andreini's knack of coming up with his best against Harvard. If Baker runs the two mile, he and sophomore Doug Hardin might be able to take the pace away from Geisel. Geisel beat Hardin this winter in the Big Three meet, but has yet to beat Baker...
...every level, though, his demands on his teammates are exacting. Though he has eased up a bit, for years McDonnell had a habit of telephoning department heads at 2 or 3 a.m. for hour-long talks. His knack for asking the one question that an aide cannot answer is legendary. Characteristically, he summons assistants to meetings at such precise times as 10:22 or 3:53, then keeps them waiting while he wrestles on and on with the previous problem...