Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, the shortened shopping period is a logistical nightmare. Last term, undergraduates officially had eight days to test the waters, but classes actually met on only five of those, with many not convening on Friday as well. In addition, those lectures that were held often ran short on space and syllabi, making it impossible for students to receive an adequate impression of the course. Toss in a major Jewish holiday on Wednesday, and the result was pure chaos...
This term, once again, there simply was not enough time for undergraduates to sift through the possible offerings. Although shopping period did include six class days with no major religious holidays, both students and professors seemed somewhat stymied by the timing. There were noticeable problems, as Tuesday/Thursday classes met only twice, some seminars did not meet until the day before study cards were due, and unequal demand led to the poorly-run lotteries...
...President's speech. Baker arranged to be notified if Kissinger tried such a ploy. When word came, Baker called the plane too. Arguing again for the President's political interests against China's hurt feelings, Baker had the lines reinserted. "A few weeks later," Baker says, "when I met Henry for the first time in a State Department receiving line, he greeted me with one of those looks of his and said, 'Ah, so you are Textile Baker...
...recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams, in its annual Next Wave Festival of avant-garde work. But BAM is now convinced (perhaps by the conventionality of many productions at the Met and even at the New York City Opera) that there are further new ways to be tried...
...officials plan not only to acquire productions from Europe and from such U.S. opera companies as St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco but also to create new stagings of their own -- and starting in 1991, to collaborate on experimental productions with the Met. Planned for the first Met-BAM season: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and a new Adams opera based on the Achille Lauro hijacking...