Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Skiddy, as his friends call him, is Harvard's senior administrator, he is not nearly at the top of the University's ladder of power. He is a third echelon administrator, a step below men like Charles P. Whitlock, the dean of the College, who is in turn a step below the upper echelon of men like John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, and, of course, President Derek...
...steady reader grows affectionately aware of Van der Valk's changing circumstances. His two sons grow up. He slowly mounts the bureaucratic ladder from simple detective to special commissaris. His wife, Arlette, keeps feuding over sweetbreads with her swinish butcher. In King of the Rainy Country, Van der Valk is shot and nearly killed by a hysterical woman. He is seduced just once, in Ireland, but is miserable until he confesses it to Arlette...
...psychopath, as Harrington defines him, is not just an exaggerated version of the neurotic, afraid to walk under a ladder. He is the new man, free from either anxiety or remorse, cold, bored, self-isolated, adventurous, seductive when he wants to be. Or as Harrington lists some types: "Drunkards and forgers, addicts, flower children . . . Mafia loan shark battering his victim, charming actor, murderer, nomadic guitarist, hustling politician, the saint who lies down in front of tractors, icily dominating Nobel Prize winner stealing credit from laboratory assistants . . . all, all doing their thing...
Klein had advanced higher on the ladder than Maier and Williamson. In July, 1969, the Geology Department raised him to the non-tenured rank of associate professor. In Spring, 1971, the Department recommended that he be promoted to full professor and be granted tenure...
...recent interview, Bok asserted that "we have added significantly to the number of women in faculty and Corporation appointments (this year)." Statistics on appointments change almost daily, but even a hopeful estimate by Bloomfield could not place the year's net increase of women in on-ladder positions above five or six. And though more than five or six new appointments were made, several exceptionally well-qualified women are being...