Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Munson begrudged the ink and air time given to players he considered less talented, especially Boston Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk, who stole the spotlight from him with an outstanding rookie season in 1972. "For a while it was like I didn't exist," Munson later said. He could be surly in public, and never bothered with the art of image making. He conducted a celebrated feud with George Steinbrenner when the Yankee owner signed Reggie Jackson to a more lucrative contract than his. Munson's salary was finally renegotiated; he signed a four-year pact averaging...
...Loeb Drama Center came under the spotlight early in the month when Robert S. Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, approached Harvard with a new, professionalized undergraduate program in theater...
While the spotlight logically was focused on the activist new Prime Minister, her defeated rival was consoled by his own moment of glory last week. With a ringing ovation for his enduring personal popularity, an assembly of Labor M.P.s re-elected Callaghan by acclamation as leader of the party...
...little conflict of interest out of the way. Bill Roberts is my roommate. For the better part of four years the two of us have watched from the sidelines as three other roommates, captain Kevin Shaw, two-man Andy Chaikovsky, and reserve Dick Arnos, have shared the Harvard tennis spotlight...
...Committee of 15 gradually assumed the spotlight, its meetings boycotted and its very function protested by students, the Fainsod Committee slipped back into productive obscurity. As it's hearings progressed, the committee heard testimony from administrators and faculty members who detailed the problems with Harvard's antiquated governing structure, and the severe lapses in communication between faculty and administrators. "Harvard as a corporation was undermanned--many of the people who managed it were old graduates who stayed around and weren't qualified to run it. There was a general feeling there were not adequate channels of communication...