Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to dispel some of the rumors current in the community concerning candidates for the presidency of the University. The offer of Thomas P. Hoving on permanent loan from the City of New York has been refused with thanks. Charlie Wong declined the appointment, muttering something about dirty linen. Oscar Handlin has said that he prefers to remain in a position of real power. Sidney Hook's public statement-that he would not accept the appointment because the necessity of putting theory into practice would limit his academic freedom-annoyed members of the Corporation since he was not under consideration...
...small group of senior Faculty members, led by the late Robert J. McCloskey, professor of Government, and including Wolff and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, began meeting informally in September. In January, after students sat in at the Paine Hall Faculty meeting, the professors agreed the Faculty was in a crisis situation and the caucus began meeting formally...
...that small band of skillful men who are the new image makers, the impresarios of television electioneering, two are preeminent. One is Charles Guggenheim, an Oscar-winning documentary-film maker who worked in the campaign of Robert Kennedy. The other is Harry Treleaven, an extraordinary advertising man whose most successful account so far has been the Richard Nixon presidential campaign of 1968. They preside over the disposition of as much as 90% of a campaigner's total budget, earn fees in a Senate race ranging from $30,000 to $60,000. Between them they are involved in 13 different...
...layout on women who "become walking billboards for all the latest status symbols" and "allow fashion to wear them." He even gave them their own initials, FV (Fashion Victims). The caption for FV Barbra Streisand, shown in the transparent Scaasi costume that she wore to receive her Oscar, was taken from her latest movie: "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever." Coming up soon: a list of SMs (Social Moths...
...ignored by WWD, you're in trouble," says Designer Anne Klein. Her collections get coverage, but she complains that WWD favors male designers, such as Oscar de La Renta, Adolfo, Bill Blass (though he was snubbed for a time), Geoffrey Beene and Yves St. Laurent. Adds Miss Klein: "If St. Laurent showed barrels with two holes cut out, I guarantee that Women's Wear would brand it the coming look. It would also note that the stays were made of teak, the nails were of the purest brass and the holes were structurally...