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...boss's orders, with another employee whom he felt was endangering an expensive Holyoke Center computer, Brown-Beasley is fired. Hiss boss, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, has taken none of the "progressive" disciplinary steps mandated by the salaried personnel manual: informal oral warnings recorded by the employer, warning letters and suspension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Sour Grapes | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

...making decisions, Carter has said he would call on his aides and Cabinet members for short oral reports or terse memos pulling together ideas and advice on a problem from as many points of view as possible. Then he would make the final decision essentially alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE SHAPE OF THE NEXT FOUR YEARS | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...believes he is carrying the mantle of the great storytellers of all time, including himself among such epic figures as Homer, Vergil and Dante, as well as Bob Dylan, B.B. King, and John Coltrane. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and lecturer in Hum 9b, Oral and Popular Literature, calls Blue "sui-generis" though. Lord believes that Blue "does not really belong to any particular tradition in storytelling." He says that Blue relies on autobiographical material in an improvisational way. "As far as I know, Blue's stories are not those handed down among generations orally...

Author: By M. BRETT Gladstone, | Title: The Age-Old Teachings and Joyful Beseechings of Brother Blue | 11/5/1976 | See Source »

Matther Copel '79, who studied Blue's work carefully for a paper in Hum 9b last spring, finds two distinct types of stories in Blue's work: parodies of folk tales, like "Little Blue Riding Hood," and the autobiographical material, which Copel calls "totally oral." Copel doesn't believe Blue has ever memorized any of his autobiographical work, and Blue himself denies even writing it down. "I never do a work the same way twice. I try to work like a jazz musician, blowing an old song from my soul, but blowing it ever new," he says. Blue sees...

Author: By M. BRETT Gladstone, | Title: The Age-Old Teachings and Joyful Beseechings of Brother Blue | 11/5/1976 | See Source »

...Secretary of Agriculture provided the Butz for a cascade of japes, among them the National Observer's John H. Corcoran Jr.'s report that Butz has left Government for "a life of tight smiles, loose shoes and a warm place to regret his oral indiscretions"; Johnny Carson's desire for "a tight announcer, a loose audience and a warm place to do my monologue"; Washington stand-up comedian and syndicated columnist (100 papers) Mark Russell's information that Midwestern Wasps like Butz and Ford want only "no sex, tight shoes and pay toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics: No Laughing Matter | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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