Word: rectoral
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...increasing too. After the death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother to the four surviving children, and was to bear him another 13 herself. Beyond all this, he found himself entangled in drawn-out quarrels with the church rector and the municipal council...
Balloons cascaded down, toilet paper was unfurled, horns honked and musical instruments tootled away as Actor Peter Ustinov was installed as the first Rector of the University of Dundee by Queen Mother Elizabeth. He then turned his attention to a wry 40-minute speech dealing in part with the foibles of Yankee politics. Said Rector Ustinov: "We may feel safer in the hands of Mr. Nixon whose smile, unlike that of Mr. Humphrey, seems to be formed by the pull of an invisible bit, as ambition tugs at the reins before the final hurdle. Or we may be influenced...
Caught in the middle of the dispute, Javier Barros Sierra, the National University's respected rector, protested the government's "excessive use of force, which our institution did not deserve." He held no brief for the young rebels, either. "Likewise," he said, "the university did not deserve the use made of it by some students and outside groups...
...Bastille. "In the future," pledges Faure, the ministry "will serve as an interlocutor between the universities and the government-but never again as a dictator." As proof of his intentions, he brought in as his top adviser one of the ministry's chief antagonists: Gerald Antoine, rector of Orleans-Tours University. Says Antoine: "A good way to take over the Bastille is to be installed within...
What outraged the journalists most was the case of the evening paper Madrid. Its offenses: quoting a French scholar's reference to the disorders at the University of Madrid, where students have repeatedly clashed with police, and printing a remark by the rector of the University of Salamanca blaming student unrest on a "political vacuum." Finally, there was a piece by Editorial Writer Rafael Calvo Serer. Wrongly anticipating the defeat of De Gaulle, he had written: "What remains clear is the incompatibility of a personal and authoritarian government within the structures of the industrial society and with the democratic...