Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forgive a lot. Stallone, perfect as Rocky, here turns in an unconvincing performance at best. No midgets were assigned to play opposite him this time around, and he comes up looking awfully short; both Peter Boyle (his corrupt predecessor as F.I.S.T. president) and Brian Dennehy (the non-union employer whom Rocky arm-twists into embracing the concept of trade unionism) look as though they could throw Stallone right through the nearest window. Instead, we are led to believe that Stallone's rise to power in the union is somehow grounded in his unique persuasive rhetorical abilities. One problem, however: like...
...Pearl Harbor, Mellon enlisted in the Army as a private. Combining his love of horses with an almost storybook romanticism, he joined the cavalry; but instead of charging, sword drawn, into the jaws of death, he found himself teaching riding to recruits. Eventually he landed in the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA, and, elevated to major, directed the dropping of agents all over Europe. He was later awarded four Bronze Stars. In 1945 he came home to Mary, their two children, Catherine, 9, and Timothy, 3, and a relaxed life of horses and pleasant conversation. After one fox hunt...
...chef during Chateaubriand's brief sojourn as ambassador to England). British Biographer George Painter attempts to resurrect the legend by resuscitating the man. Author of a highly acclaimed and exhaustively researched biography of Proust, Painter has produced the first part of a projected three-volume study. Like its predecessor, it promises to be a model of organization and insight...
...Mass Hall over the DuBois Institute funding; the six-year lapse since Harvard students took over Mass Hall to demand that Harvard sell its shares in an oil company that supported Portugal's colonizing efforts in Angola; and, most importantly, the nine years that have passed since Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, called the Cambridge police in to remove 150 demonstrators from University Hall. The swarms of police and the proliferation of locked doors that have appeared in the Yard all week bear witness to the administration's siege mentality. Bok seems to have forgotten, somehow, that...
...Chafin's predecessor at Harvard, David L. Gerski, resigned in March 1977 after a series of confrontations with the Harvard Police Association over his proposals to reorganize the force...