Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARL KAYSEN is a professor-turned-administrator. After a two-year stint advising the Government on foreign affairs, he returned to Harvard in 1963, prepared to spend the rest of his career here, teaching and doing research in political economy. But in 1966, when trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton approached him, asking him to take over J. Robert Oppen-heimer's post as director of the "intellectual hotel," he could not resist their offer...
Park came to Harvard in 1965 from a three year stint at Boston College. In the first fall of his tutelage, Harvard's defenders picked off a record 16 passes. This year, All-Ivy safetymen John Tyson and Tom Williamson teamed with Tom Wynne, Mike Ananis and Bill Cobb for 23 steals...
...After a stint producing movies in Hollywood, Bloomingdale drifted off into other business, including a venture that developed a lint-free wiping cloth. Then he and two colleagues pooled $18,000 to launch the Diners' Club, which started off by enticing 14 Manhattan restaurants to honor its credit cards. The club quickly became a success - and its name a misnomer - as hotels, gas stations, car-rental agencies and a host of other business establishments signed...
...Simonsen sailed as a captain for the Military Sea Transportation Service, but he beached himself in 1950 because he "found going to sea pretty dull in peacetime." Working ashore was not much more satisfactory. After a series of sales jobs in the U.S. and Canada, including a stint as a salesman for Sears, Roebuck, Simonsen decided to go back to sea vicariously-by teaching other people how to handle themselves afloat...
...Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed in a newspaper column; it caused a run on his first three books. His 20 poetry volumes since then have...