Word: nannerl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real and frequently sexist world: "When they do hit their first mound of prejudice, instead of saying, 'I'm not ready for this,' they will say, 'I know...
...touched up for 200 years. "A little man with his wig and sword" is Goethe's description of the child performing for Europe's nobility and dazzling Kapellmeister with feats of improvisation and phonographic memory. There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes. If a theater poster announced an eight-year old Wunderkind even though Mozart was nine, who was Leopold to correct the error? Such was the perishable nature of his merchandise...
WELLESLEY--The trustees of Wellesley College last week selected Nannerl Keohane, associate professor of political science at Stanford University, to become Wellesley's 11th president next fall...
WELLESLEY--Wellesley College chose on Tuesday Nannerl Koehane, an associate professor of political science at Stanford University, for its 11th president, university officials announced...