Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atwater began his journalistic career on a festive note at age 16, when he put in a summer stint for the Springfield (Mass.) Union. The only staffer on hand at the paper's two-man Westfield bureau on V-J day, he recalls, "I took my typewriter, set it on a windowsill, and wrote about what I could see before me: a grand, impromptu celebration in the town square. It was a great moment for a kid raised on The Front Page...
...industrialists near Lille, he was ordained in 1929 and spent 30 years in Africa, where he became Archbishop of Dakar. But he had difficulty adjusting to the changes that swept Africa in the 1960s, when many colonies won independence, and he was transferred back to France. After a brief stint as bishop of Tulle, he was appointed head of a missionary order, the Fathers of the Holy Spirit. When the order's general assembly voted a series of reforms, Lefebvre resigned, charging that "democratization" of the church was the work of Satan. Six years ago he founded a seminary...
Selling Catsup. The outlaw-desperado theme pervades L.A. rock. Even in a city with dozens of thriving clubs and recording studios, rock's musical desperados can be hard pressed to scratch out a living. The Chicago-born Zevon did a stint at a Los Angeles advertising agency, composing a jingle for Camaro cars as well as ditties for Boone's Farm Wines. "They wanted folky, Gordon Lightfoot commercials," he remembers. "It was immensely profitable (up to $3,000 per ad) but selling catsup and cheap wine is truly abrasive to the soul...
...during her husband's second stint at Harvard that Monette succumbed to the lure of the Harvard sheepskin and entered the Business School. She told the court yesterday she had only wanted to get a master's degree in business administration at Harvard...
With the heraldic pennants flying at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, Joseph Papp's production does not stint on pageantry. While the evening is workmanlike, it never truly evokes Shakespeare's "Muse of fire." Rudd's Henry seems apprenticed to his role rather than the master of it. Streep is a potent charmer as Katherine. Since I there is no admission charge, this is an enticing opportunity to follow Cole Porter's advice and "brush up your Shakespeare...