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He’s been called director, actor, and producer, but those in the theater community know him best as technician, carpenter, set builder and light designer. Basically, if you need a free-standing, removable 15x4 plank of wood on the set of your play, David S. Jewett ’08—one of this year’s recipients of the Louise Donovan Award—is the person to call. A Minneapolis native, Jewett has always had an interest in theater but only got involved in set construction after coming to Harvard...
...spurned lover. Like millions of other blacks, Wright was willing to serve the country while suffering rejection. He surrendered his student deferment in 1961, voluntarily joined the Marines and, after a two-year stint, volunteered to become a Navy corpsman. He excelled and became valedictorian, later a cardiopulmonary technician and eventually a member of the President's medical team. Wright cared for Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery, earning three White House letters of commendation...
Music fans knew him as Hurricane Smith, whose song Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? hit Billboard's Top 10 in 1973. But to industry types, Norman Smith was better known as the longtime engineer, or technician in chief, for the Beatles. Smith, nicknamed "Normal" by John Lennon, worked with producer George Martin on every Beatles recording through 1965's Rubber Soul. Later, as a producer, Smith helped usher in the psychedelic era by discovering and signing Pink Floyd after watching their trippy act at London's UFO club...
...talented, wonderful, and deliciously awkward people? If you’ve ever tried to pick someone up at a bar/club/rock show, I’m sure you’ll agree: after traipsing around with violin prodigies, Olympic medallists, and of course, Spee boys, a 33-year-old light technician, however charming, just doesn’t match...
...learning has been going on, but this latest development tells us something about ourselves that perhaps we’d be better off not knowing. One might be tempted to blame the enterprising programmers behind these Q-searching tools for leading Harvard students down the road of cynical educational technician-ship. Such a claim is unfair. They aren’t administering the poison; they’re just leaving it on the shelf for the children to find. No, we’re the ones to blame, sitting around in dining halls choosing our classes by scorecard, when...