Word: predecessors
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LIVING UP to the talent of a writer like Nabokov takes some care and precision. But if this excerpt from Albee's program note is any clue, his intellect is muddied with sentiment when it comes to his predecessor: "The play of Lolita is both Nabokov and Albee...But, that being as it may...the entire work is Nabokov; it is my valentine to the great man, he who suffered fools so badly and who, so clearly, loved us all, even the Humbert Humberts and the Lolitas of this world...
Mitch Johnson, manager of the new store, said yesterday he was determined to avoid his predecessor's fate...
Ronald Reagan is at once more a part of the Washington scene than his predecessor, and, in another way, more removed. He has, as every President before, begun making his own patterns of leadership and life in the White House...
...chairman, Thomas Barrow, 56, who had recently left a $250,000-a-year job as a senior vice president at Exxon. The 6-ft. 3½-in. onetime University of Texas football player is the son of a former chairman of Humble Oil & Refining, one of Exxon's predecessor companies, and the heir to the 30,000-acre Thomson Ranch near San Antonio. Having reportedly been passed over for the presidency of Exxon, Barrow was on his way back home to manage his ranch when Kennecott snared him with a Texas-size contract. Barrow's salary, bonus...
...this community who oppose concessions to "racial separatism." He should come out for an even stronger financial commitment to Third World organizations, to minorty admissions, to the hiring of minority faculty. There is a point where delegation ends and leadership, both here and nationwide, begins. And although Bok's predecessor Pusey was widely assailed for taking matters into his own hands too often, for going so far as to call the police to evict with force students mainly protesting for peace, he at least showed his humanity, his capacity to love and hate, his faith in Old Harvard and what...