Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report distributed to the entire faculty the HTU stated, "There is amazingly little placement machinery available to the Ph.D. looking for his first job. . . . Most of the universities do not admit there is a problem...
...survey conducted by the Committee on Placement showed that universities give employers information about the Ph.D.'s, but don't help out the job-hunter. As a result, the analysis showed that this same Ph.D. has had to cast about himself for a college position...
Looking beyond the problem of inefficient placement, the HTU commented that the entire teaching profession is haphazardly organized and is expanding without direction. "The immediate prospect for the academic profession," the HTU concluded, "is rapid curtailment...
...hardest job," he says, "has been to keep our church from becoming a social whip. The radicals bear down, saying we are not in there fighting. Others want us to become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part...
There is little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind of continuum of time and space. Such castles were almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing...