Word: stints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rennaissance Man characteristics obscure what friends say is an intense sense of moral urgency that animates his approach to the presidency, a sharp contrast to the image of amorality which critics, especially those in the divestiture movement, paint of Bok. Simon, for instance, recalls the stint of military service Bok served in the Judge Advocate's Office in Washington in the early 1950s, when Bok fought the military's loyalty screening program, which ran a McCarthy-like board that investigated soldiers thought to be subversive...
Director Nela Wagman '84, in her first stint as director, does a superb job. Wagman's challenge is to let three characters in one room be neither distracting nor dull. Even at their best, the actors seemingly move spontaneously under her subtle direction...
...Ackroyd suggests that in many ways Vivien was a good wife, supporting her husband in his dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with the indecisiveness of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: he went off for a stint of teaching in the U.S., told his lawyers to handle matters in his absence and hid from her when he returned to England. She died in a mental institution...
...that hurts no one more than the two very' stint captains...
...successor is Sunday Managing Editor Michael Janeway, 44, who joined the paper in 1978 after a decade as a top editor at the Atlantic and a stint as an aide to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said Publisher William Taylor, whose family has owned and run the Globe since its inception in 1872: "Mike shares Tom's strong commitment to tackle the problems of the city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent...