Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work is on some of the most frontier topics in international relations," Gurney Professor of Political Science Robert D. Putnam said yesterday. "He is a very attractive person. He has been sought after by many other major universities...
...fact, Walter, perhaps the family's most eminent member, still shares a modest house on Putnam Street with two other families. His son, Michael, still lives at home. The house's not too far from where he, Ed and seven brothers and sisters grew up on Surrey...
...cleverly built foundation underlies Mallory's Oracle (Putnam; 286 pages; $21.95), by newcomer Carol O'Connell; the author relates that her flamboyant main character, a young cop named Kathleen Mallory, was a Manhattan street kid into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world...
...Putnam did not like the job of being dean and that really disturbed the faculty," Thompson says. "For two years we really didn't know where we were going...
...just two years after assuming the deanship, Putnam was ready to abandon it to return to teaching and research...