Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has unanimously accepted a Music Department offer to establish an Instructorship in Music for the post of conductor next year...
Rollin T. Kearns '59, president of HRO, said yesterday, "An appointment to the post will be announced within a month. It is not yet known who the person will be, but possible choices include Attilio Poto, present conductor...
Next morning the local post office is swamped with cables supporting the elephant man. The world's conscience is aroused-or perhaps just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants...
...Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion...
...prestige. On the evidence of his Memoirs, it would seem that Montgomery never allowed himself much more. Having received the surrender of German forces at the end of World War II, he received the envoy of Marshal Rokossovsky, who wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were not his line...