Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boardroom Detente. At length Gelsthorpe concluded that to stop the quarreling "it was imperative that this company bring in somebody not in any way involved in the events of the past months." His opponents agreed, and the board united to choose Booth and Detroit Investor Max M. Fisher, one of United Brands' biggest stockholders, who becomes acting chairman. In private, each faction still disparages the other; yet the rivals are at the same time happy with Booth's selection, because it means that neither side...
Directed by J. LEE THOMPSON Screenplay by MAX EHRLICH...
...Max Riebenfeld...
...recognized, with less glee, that "The University is by design and effect the institution in society which creates discontent with existing moral, social and political institutions and proposes new institutions to replace them. . . . The University is inherently a disruptive force." To preserve these inherent qualities, Professor Lipset adopts Max Weber's convictions, and argues elsewhere that, while value-free scholarship can never be fully realized in the social sciences, the ideal must be pursued. While it is fine for individual professors to be political advocates, such commitment must be separate from their scholarship and the spirit of the university...
...possessed a town house with painted ceilings and marble fireplaces that he rather hated and a charming wife in Schiaparelli originals whom he loved, and he showed off both. Parties the Clarks gave and attended were exercises in name-dropping: Noël Coward, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rubinstein, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill...