Word: sissela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word about Mick and Bianca, but both of them--Bianca especially, if you want to know--should hear themselves talking. "Tatum and Ryan are going to be late, so I called Warren, Diane, and Misha," I heard Mick once tell our friend Reggie. "What about Jodie, Sissela, Derek, Archie, Zubin, Roman and Nastassia?" Bianca managed to reply. It was about then that Fellini and Marcello walked in. Rico and I have never been able to stay in the same room for longer than it takes to see what the other is wearing, so I left hastily...
...Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink." So argues Sissela Bok, a lecturer on medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, in her book Lying. Most Americans would readily agree. Yet Americans are finding it ever more risky to trust the world about them. Duplicity crops up so often and so widely that there are moments when it seems that old-fashioned honesty is going out of style...
While the rest of his classmates rushed into the world of corporate law, Bok traveled to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at the Institute of Political Science. Still unsure of his career plans, Bok spent the year studying. There he met a young Swedish student named Sissela Myrdal--daughter of sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. The two were married later that year...
...person. While some, including one high University official, complain that he is a plastic politician--an impression easily etched as one watches Bok walk, through the Faculty Club and say "Nice to see you" to the people in the hall-others say he is simply shy. "When Derek and Sissela walk into a party," says one friend, "you've got to ply them away from the people they know." Bok is not sensitive about his private affairs, says Lloyd E. Weinreb, a professor of Law and close friend of the president, "so much as he is a genuinely private person...
After the procedure, volunteers (mostly wives of Harvard faculty and administrators, including Sissela Bok) will assist the donors to tables of refreshments...