Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that greatest of Americanists and roistering misfit in this town of shut-ins goaded, cajoled, cursed Heimert up the academic ladder, until, just as he reached the top--with Miller, now dead, no longer there to guide him--the same confusions which propelled the middle-class, occasionally Jewish boy to Columbia made him lose his balance and think about climbing down. "When the department voted me tenure," he says, "I went...
...Zanuck has already made Geneviève something of a star. He directed the 23-minute short, The World of Fashion, that preceded Flea on the program, and Geneviève was the film's only performer. That may not be much of a step up the movie ladder but with Darryl's help, who knows...
...opponents so far, McCurdy's runners have effectively kept the pressure on each other. Sophomore Howie Foye, for example, lacked the sharpness Saturday that he exhibited in last week's Brown meet. The result showed five teammates moving past him with Foye dropping to the tenth rung on the ladder...
Behind them the parade continued. Keith Colburn continued his steady progress up the ladder, outlegging sophomore Howie Foye for the fourth position. McCurdy expressed particular pleasure with Foye's "best-ever" performance...
...youth from the ghetto, would perform minor investigative chores, rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...