Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search committee member says both insiders and outsiders remain on the list, but will name no names. In the meantime, the rumor mill churns out the usual suspects...
...past dean of the New York University Graduate School of Public Administration, Altshuler has the administrative background and, as a former Massachusetts state secretary of transportation and construction, the governmental experience to lead the school. But rumor says he left NYU to get back to research: why leave one bureaucracy to lead another...
Walking over to the Gonzo stage, we confirmed the rumor that the Great Woods lawn had been converted to a beach, Despite our best efforts, we couldn't avoid stepping the many soggy, sandy blankets that littered the place. I was thankful that The Crimson had gotten me a seat under the Pavilion, where I could enjoy the show without collecting water and sand in my shoes...
...staging of Wagner -- and all other opera -- by doing away with conventional sets. Wieland died in 1966, leaving Wolfgang in command of the festival. He too has had a busy career directing, but his work tends to be fussy and literal, and he is not taken seriously. The rumor is that Wolfgang started his memoir when he heard he had a rival, American author Frederic Spotts, whose Bayreuth (Yale University; $35) appeared in late June. Once again Wolfgang has been badly bested...
...love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly. All this makes the author's concluding study of Irish history a fine, smoldering narrative, even...