Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following is a collective response from the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee to the recent dismissal of Robin Sing. Because she was fired within her three-month probationary period of employment, Ms. Sing was denied access to the normal grievance produces accorded regular salaried employees at Harvard University. Her supervisor at the Loeb Library, Caroline Shillaber, fired Ms. Sing without warning after 11/2 days' absence (one day with permission and 1/2 day for an emergency concerning her child). According to Ms. Sing's sworn affidavit. Shillaber fired her with the explanation that she "foresaw a pattern of absence because...
Only after Harvard learned that Ms. Sing planned to take legal action with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAS), did a four-page, single spaced memorandum appear detailing alleged poor work performance. While the MCAD's investigation proceeded, a staff meeting was called at the Loeb Library to forbid discussion on the part of the staff and employees with anyone outside the University...
...hearing, Harvard was represented by three lawyers from Ropes and Gray, who argued, among other things, that a woman cannot possibly discriminate against a woman. The logic behind this argument is at best shakey. The MCAD is continuing its investigation into Ms. Sing's dismissal, indicating that the case is by no means concluded...
...Cher, who was christened Cherlin, recalls. "I thought I was an angel from heaven sent to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did it, I was really pissed off." Even before that she was trying to woo the world through performance. "From the time I could talk, I began to sing. Singing just came from the inside-something I'd do without thinking whenever I felt good or was really blue. Dancing? Well, it released my tensions...
...also claims he always knew she would be a star some day: "She would walk around our house and sing her ass off. It drove me crazy. But in the first two weeks I knew her, I told her I felt that she would be a great star. That's what she wanted." In this period she and Sonny once briefly split because, he claims, he was afraid he might stand in the way of the great career he was still predicting...