Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Michael Cacoyannis' direction of The Trojan Women by Euripides, 1963.
> Peter Brook's direction of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, 1965.
As a correspondent for the New York Times, and later for NBC, Elie Abel has often found himself at the flash points of the world. He covered the Nurnberg trials, the Hungarian Revolution, two presidential campaigns and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. But last week Abel, 49, received what...
Beginning Feb. 1, Abel will preside over a faculty embittered by more than a year's debate over a successor to Edward Barrett, the former dean. Barrett resigned after the turbulent student disorders of 1968, protesting "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers" at the university. He left behind a...
An alumnus of the school, Abel comes to academic life from a two-year stint as NBC's diplomatic correspondent in Washington. With the faculty dispute awaiting him, the training should come in handy.