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Benson acknowledged that Robinson's decision, coupled with the retirement of one of Harvard's prominent scholars in the field, Porter Professor of English Morton W. Bloomfield, would leave the Department a little "shorthanded" in medievalists...
...Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English, cited the recent appointments of Marjorie Garber, professor of English, Barbara Lewalski, professor of History and Literature; and Helen Vendler, visiting professor of English and American Literature, along with the tenuring of Bercovich...
Reagan accepted "with regret" both Ruslow's resignation and that of Starr. The President named Morton I. Abramowitz, a former ambassador to Thailand to take Star's place...
What is left, and still has its slick power, is the music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...
...hype stories, but the facts are correct, and it has credibility." Advertisers, however, have not been buying. Edward Eskandarian, president of the Boston advertising agency Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., explained: "The Herald has an older, downscale audience, while the Globe delivers the $35,000-and-up households." John Morton, dean of newspaper industry analysts, summarized the struggle ahead: "Hearst has already Murdochized the Boston paper. I do not know what more Murdoch himself...