Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCree report pointed up one of the possible reasons for such rejection in its 1972 study--a perception on the part of tenure candidates that the department does not receive full support from the Harvard community. The report noted: "One of the problems of attracting eminent black and white scholars to the department is the fact that they have earned acceptance in 'conventional' disciplines at other institutions which they would not want to forsake by going to a department which appears to be 'on trial' and/of accorded second-class status at Harvard." Rosovsky notes that this attitude is still...
...Public Health (SPH), they've been learning the hard way. A couple of years ago, 10 men from the regional HEW office descended on the budget office--and didn't leave for 18 months. When they finally packed up their calculators and balance sheets, and issued the first part of their draft report, nobody offered to throw any going-away parties. In a document released last April, HEW charged the school with questionable expenditure of $2.5 million and challenged the school's techniques for recording more than $15 million in salaries and wages. And auditing was an exciting subject once...
...want to welcome them and make them feel like a part of the University and show them that Harvard cares about them and their teaching," Gullette said...
Common explanations offered by arm chair geneticists included "watching too much television," "studying too hard," and "smoking too much dope." But Dougherty said the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment--not in rolling paper--was part of the reason for the decline...
Admittedly, Alda's concern is not Washington, but ambition--and how it seduces Joe Tynan, and how that seduction affects the people around him. Barbara Harris's Elie cannot accept political life, but neither will she part with her husband. Elie borders on the liberated, flapping her gums without taking a firm stand when faced with Tynan's indifference and infidelity. If Alda had lived up to his touted feminist credentials, Elie could not say, "All I ever wanted was for you to love me." She could go to college, or whatever, yet she remains a faithful and willing victim...