Word: lectureships
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When Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a French professor who has come to New Hampshire to lodge for the summer before starting a lectureship, tours the home of prospective landlord Charlotte Haze (Sue Lyons), he is completely turned off by her blatant, grotesque and clingy personality. But one look at Haze's shrewd, sexy adolescent daughter, Dolores (a.k.a. Lo or Lolita, played by Shelley Winters), sensuously sunbathing on the front lawn, and Humbert is there to stay. The story plays out Humbert's pedophilic passions, and, when Lolita and he go on a cross-country escapade, it becomes an extended commentary...
Apple delivered the annual lecture honoring Joe Alex Morris Jr. '49, a Los Angeles Times reporter killed while covering the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In 1982, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and Morris' family established the lectureship, which the foundation awards each year...
More recently, incoming Graduate School of Education Dean Linda Darling Hammond took her name out of consideration for the deanship after initially being offered the post because her husband had not been given a position. she later accepted the job after he was offered a lectureship at the Kennedy School...
Incoming Dean of the Graduate School of Education LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND took her name out of consideration for the position after being offered it because her husband did not have a job at Harvard. She later accepted the job after he was offered a lectureship at the Kennedy School of Government...
Wilfried Schmid, chair of Harvard's Mathematics Department, says that his faculty has made efforts to recruit female scholars. Of four junior offers made last year, two were extended to women, he says. One of these women accepted the Pierce lectureship, but the other chose Princeton University instead...