Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after, Lyubimov was warned that, like Dostoyevsky's antihero Raskolnikov, he was guilty of a "crime" and "punishment" would follow. Sure enough, he was stripped of his job at the Taganka Theater, which he had run for two decades, then his Communist Party membership, his Moscow apartment and finally, in absentia, his citizenship. After years of agitating for permission to work in the West, Lyubimov had cruelly been granted his wish. Since then he has staged plays and operas throughout Europe and in Israel, ranging from a Rigoletto in Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting...
...generations, membership in a college faculty has implied the enviable prospect of lifetime job security through the granting of tenure. Not anymore. Since the late 1970s, academe has suffered a Ph.D. glut as baby-boom enrollments leveled off while universities continued to churn out fledgling professors, particularly in the humanities, faster than the shrinking job market could absorb them...
...gentleman spy was also native to the U.S. Founded in 1917, a clique known as the Room used the cover of international travel and scientific expeditions to gather information that it passed on to Washington and London. The Room's membership list read like the Social Register: Vincent Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, David Bruce (Andrew Mellon's son-in-law), Nelson Doubleday and a gilt edging of Wall Streeters and lawyers...
Save for a symbolic ring which many members wear, there are no outward traits which imply membership in the Baha'i; but that doesn't mean there are not distinguishing features of the faith which set members apart...
...Review also cited Brown students' hatred for themselves and for the United States. "To privilege [Brown] with membership in the Ivy League is to foster values antithetical to human and national decency...