Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write for the voice. The land beyond, a second-act aria for Poe's wife Virginia, is almost Mozartean in its poignant simplicity. Virginia died of consumption at 24. In the opera she is resurrected, but after singing her aria, she dies again. It is an enviable role that allows the soprano to die more than once, and the limpid-voiced Karen Hunt makes the most of it. But it is the men who dominate Poe, as they do in operas like Otello and Don Carlos by Argento's idol, Verdi. Tenor George Livings (Poe) and Baritone John...
...report of this University panel--known as the Hartman Review Committee--represented Harvard's first attempt to systematically study a non-hiring case. It examined a junior faculty member's right to criticize his tenured colleagues, the role of "subjective" elements in hiring decisions, and the obligations of a department to grant "due process" to those it considers for non-tenured positions...
...administrators and faculty involved in the 1969 decision not to rehire Hartman. Its report detailed the school's reliance on "grossly inadequate" and "execrable" procedures for considering reappointments, incompetence in the Department, a "failure of administrative oversight," "the intrusion of subjective elements" into the GSD decision, and a "troublesome" role played in the non-reappointment by then-President Nathan M. Pusey...
...report only touches briefly on Pusey's role, which was one of the most controversial aspects of the Hartman case. The then-University president reportedly viewed Hartman as an "unfortunate example of faculty participation" in the student demonstrations of spring 1969, the review panel's report said, and Hartman became a "symbol of the faculty's distaste" for the protests...
...Troublesome' Pusey Role...