Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connection with the breaking of a University Hall door panel May 44 by members of the SDS Radical Arts Troupe...
After Kennedy's address, the panel-made up of George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law, Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Jerome B. Wiesner, M. I. T. professor of Biology, and George Rathjens of M. I. T.-answered questions from the floor...
Appropriate Criteria. In February, the regents ordered a "blue-ribbon committee" of U.C.L.A. faculty members to investigate charges that Miss Davis was propagandizing her students and making fiery public speeches. Last month the panel reported its findings to the regents -and apparently gave them no grounds for dismissal. The philosophy department has endorsed her reappointment after the most extensive review of academic qualification "ever conducted in such a case...
...illustrations in the margins. An arcane glossary of Indo-European word roots lends it a patina of intellectuality, and a listing of almost all the outhouse and bawdyhouse four-letter verbs gives it a salty flavor. To comb out the neologisms and solecisms, the editors consulted a usage panel of 104 unpaid judges, mainly journalists and other writers. Among them: Russell Baker, Vermont Royster, Red Smith and Dwight Macdonald. The wisdom of this move, apart from the publicity it brought the book, became apparent with the rave reviews that followed, some of them by panelists...
...promotion. That is an astronomical sum for a book. Essentially the book is not much different from, say, the college edition of the Random House dictionary; both have 1,600 pages and include 155,000 words. The American Heritage publishers created an air of difference by plugging their usage panel, the glossary and the liberal use of illustrations. Booksellers were courted with personal sales calls and arresting ads in book journals. One ad showed a clutch of sullen teen-agers under the headline: "You don't buy your old man's ideas. Why buy your...