Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Getting this fellowship has made a big difference in my career," said future fellow Dr. Ruth M. Ruprecht, a Harvard Medical School instructor who will spend next year researching cures forleukemia. "It's a major plus to be able toconcentrate on doing research rather than lookingfor sources of funding," she said...
...parody is absurd. The excellent Vienna Beethoven cycle, along with Bernstein's first-rate Schumann, Haydn and Mahler, is testimony to Walsh's aesthetic silliness. Although several of Bernstein's recent compositions have been less than successful, that situation does not constitute proof of Bernstein's artistic irrelevance. Babe Ruth struck out more than most hitters, yet his niche in Cooperstown, N.Y., remains secure. Whatever his personal flaws, Bernstein is a powerful, worthwhile musical presence...
...July 1, the paper will feature not one but two successors to the nation's best-known advice columnist, who will continue to write her own column at the rival Chicago Tribune. The other lucky selectee is Diane Crowley, 47, a divorced lawyer with two children, whose late mother Ruth was "the original creator of the Ann Landers column," according to Sun-Times Publisher Robert Page. Crowley's law practice has given her "a lot of experience in solving problems for people," she notes. "I've done divorces. I've done adoptions . . ." Her column, called "Your Problems," is expected...
...book will have contributions from members of the Harvard faculty, including Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Jonathan R. Beckwith, and Professor of Biology Ruth Hubbard, as well as works by several undergraduates and some outside contributors, but most of the articles have been written by the members of Students for Empowerment...
Harvard has not escaped the burgeoning interest in AIDS. The University last fall started a committee on AIDS and this year two undergraduate groups distributed free condoms on campus and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer and Surgeon General C. Everett Koop delivered speeches about AIDS. A student AIDS benefit committee sponsored several fundraising events this year. University Health Services (UHS) officials released the information that six Harvard affiliates have died of AIDS, none of whom were undergraduates...