Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because each resident tutor opening attracts so large a pool of candidates, student involvement insures a more rigorous evaluation of applicants. In Lowell House, for instance, Master William H. Bossert '59 and co-master Mary Lee Bossert alone screen all initial applications, conduct all interviews, and make final appointment, according to the Council report. Each application would certainly receive more extensive scrutiny if the Bosserts brought students into the evaluation procedure...
Undergraduates represent a rich source of academic expertise; this is, a government concentrator can no doubt provide valuable, insights into the qualities that make a good government tutor Also, if many people screen applications, each candidate will receive a more careful reading--insuring that the candidate himself, not the polish of his resume, is under examination...
...local color. Its closest relative in the genre is Amanda Cross's Death in a Tenured Position, which has the same lightly sardonic tone. But unlike Cross's book, which unfolded among the junior faculty of the Harvard English Department with only an occasional student flashing across the screen, Silver's is firmly rooted in the Yard...
...appearance on the screen that night became a celebrated media happening. Edited versions were played and replayed many times in the days to come. Even if I wished to do so, it is now far too late to correct the impressions that it made, but I may be forgiven for saying that I regard the way in which the tape was edited, especially by CBS, as the height of technical artistry. The television camera is the siege machine of the 20th century. Perhaps the camera and microphone magnified the effects of my spring up the stairs. Possibly I should have...
...dropped off the political radar screen for ever. "In July 1980, however, he was invited to address the G.O.P. convention and soon found himself very much back on the screen...