Word: professor
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...middle of a North Carolina forest stands a spanking new white brick building with lots of sliding glass doors and a glass-domed roof, as if the architect intended to build either a hothouse or a window on the world and simply could not decide which. When Peter Riesenberg, professor of history from Washington University and a fellow-in-residence, first saw the National Humanities Center, he cried, "I've lucked into a monastery!" Surveying his $2.5 million home away from home, Martin Krieger, on leave from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Public Affairs, murmured, "After...
...When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...
...pudgy Roldós, a professor of law and former member of congress, promised that he would be "the force of change." Not a fiery speaker, his methodical rhetoric came across well on television broadcasts that played an important role in the campaign. Though married to Bucaram's niece, he distanced himself from his radical mentor by scrapping the slogan he used last summer: ROLDÓS IN OFFICE, BUCARAM IN POWER. Roldós' moderate image won over the small but growing middle class. He gained the support of poor peasants and Indians (33% of the population...
...half informed, the American-on-the-street must grasp terms like deoxyribonucleic acid, fantastic prospects like genetic engineering, and bizarre phenomena like nuclear meltdown. The technical face of things has driven some people into a bored sort of cop-out-"science anxiety," it is called by Physics Professor Jeffry Mallow of Loyola University in Chicago. The predicament has made most Americans hostage to the superior knowledge of the expert: the scientist, the technician, the engineer, the specialist...
Stokey refused to say whether there were other candidates left over from the last search that the school might turn to. She added that "the time bind is not as bad as it might seem. Even if Professor Thompson had accepted, he might not have been able to come for next September...