Word: maher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a Gigolo. This old woman has come to Paris for a last visit with her favorite son (Joseph Maher). As a boy, he used to idle away hours in the trees. As a man, he has idled away his life as a compulsive gambler and is now a gigolo in a nightclub. The woman he lives with is the club hustler (Suzanne Lederer). The conversational pas de trois that these three engage in is replete with bitterness and non-sequitur absurdist humor. The performers are also forced to carry an elephantine load of symbolism...
Brendan A. Maher, chairman of the department, said yesterday the change reflects a shift in student attitudes towards various social problems, and a growing consciousness of "employment opportunities and how they relate to the state of the discipline outside college...
...Maher said he was not sure if students were also reacting to the department's efforts to develop more rigorous standards, which he said do not conform to the view of many students that the field is an "easy major." FIELD '79 '78 ECONOMICS 158 160 BIOLOGY 138 142 GOVERNMENT 134 114 HISTORY 130 121 ENGLISH 92 96 BIOCHEM 88 64 P&SR 81 96 HIST&LIT 51 44 ENGINEERING 44 39 SOC STUD...
Goals by Osvaldo Maher and Larry Moss produced the triumph, as Columbia reversed one streak and perhaps, began another...
...having quite as hard a time of it. "A very good, top-notch woman has got a better chance at this point than a top-notch man," McKinney says. "Though in the soft fields, it's hard for everyone." It is "now almost the rule, not the exception," Brendan Maher, chairman of the Psychology and Social Relations Department, says, for letters from universities advertising openings to specify interest in finding qualified women or minority candidates. As a direct result of the women's movement and "the fuss that's been made," Skocpol says, "it's now easier for a woman...