Word: steiner
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...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, who coordinated an investigation of the allegations last year, said last week, "It was an isolated and unfortunate incident, and I'm sorry to see that magazine exploit...
Partridge, whom Edmund Wilson dubbed "the Word King," is already at work on a second, enlarged dictionary of catch phrases. His first effort has been praised by C.P. Snow for its "scholarly scrupulousness" and by George Steiner, who calls it a "sparkling, compendious work." Even so, each reader seems to find that a favorite phrase is missing or that an explanatory note is inadequate. Once that is remedied, the lexicographer says, he is through with major works. Eric Partridge fans have learned not to take him at his word. As he has written, there's life...
...University has not started legal proceedings against Nelson. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, would not comment on the case last night...
From the anti-Bakke side, the undecided or unsure have also heard two lines, both putting the U.C. Davis plan within the context of the larger struggle for affirmative action, but on two different emotional levels. At the legalistic level, advocates like Daniel Steiner '54, who filed Harvard's amicus curiae brief on the case with the Supreme Court, argue that it is important not to rule against the U.C. Davis program as a quota system because it is still early enough in the affirmative action game so that individual admissions committees deserve some elbow room in working out their...
Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner. At Off the Wall, with Viva Le Tour, Solo and Walking. Complete show nightly...