Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is also the conviction of President Bok and Dean Rosovsky, to whom the diversity of the faculty they have helped build is perhaps Harvard's greatest strength. "There aren't many universities in the United States that can cover the same range," boasts Rosovsky. Bok describes the faculty as the "building block on which everything else rests." Harvard's president has a time trying to stand on that block. In one of his first meetings with the faculty, Bok began to explain his view of the role of the university. From the back row came a whisper...
...university seem not significantly diminished by such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give...
Guitar Town has some of the frantic strength of a last good shot, which it was. Earle is 31,"the tour bus is home," and making it in country music needs a young man's grit after all. But MCA has given him a seven-album contract, and some material for the new record is getting an airing in concert. Those new songs nail a listener right to the spot. Steve Earle is already fulfilling his promise even before he has stopped being promising. No time to waste...
...find in my work with Afro-American women the resources that bring moral wisdom and strength that we all need," said Welch, who is noted for her study of Black American women...
...deed of hopeand faith may crown a brief and broken life withdeathless fame. He will teach that the good whichmen do lives after them, fructified and multipliedbeyond all power of measurement or computation. Hewill teach that from the seed which he planted inloneliness, weakness and sorrow, have sprung joy,strength and energy ever fresh, blooming yearafter year in the garden of learning...