Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MacLeish came to the Professorship in 1949, after a varied career in public affairs, which included service as Assistant Secretary of State. A native of Illinois, he graduated from Yale and from Harvard Law School and served in France in World War I. After free lance writing and a stint on the staff of Fortune Magazine, MacLeish became the first Curator of the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at the University...
...Living with a foreign family while studying at the universities of Bonn, Caen or Madrid during the junior year's fall and winter quarters. No vacation, the stint involves four daily hours of classroom study, intense language training and a strong dose of cultural shock. "A college can no longer give a broad education in its little oasis," says Hicks. "We're trying to use the whole world as our campus...
...Holbrook (best known for his Mark Twain act) touchingly plays the hero, a childlike German veteran of World War II whose tormented self-quest has made him a patient in a mental institution. George Voskovec plays his psychiatrist and all other speaking roles in a virtuoso acting stint. In pursuit of "psychodramatic therapy," doctor and patient enact Holbrook's life until he winds up as a daredevil motorcyclist in an act called ''The Flying Saucers...
...stint of selling cut-rate Dutch washing machines door to door gave Bloom the idea of marketing his own Dutch washers. After many Dutch farms refused to manufacture for him, he finally made a deal with a plant in Utrecht and formed his own company. Then he advertised a Spartan automatic washer-dryer for $144 -40% below competitors' prices. Bloom's first ad pulled 8,000 inquiries, and soon he was selling 500 machines a week. Hoping to cut overhead by opening production lines in Britain, he next made a novel deal with Rolls Razor...
...nearer by the recent decision of the Soviet government to start nuclear tests. Our situation today is the most dangerous since World War II ended." The conference, he urged, should first address itself to this issue, laying aside the old shibboleths of colonialism and imperialism. He recalled his stint at the League of Nations in 1938 to underscore his point: "There was fear of war all over Europe, but the League of Nations was discussing the opium trade. Opium was a very important subject, but it was not the important subject...