Word: theda
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Each of them was the Marilyn Monroe of her day, so Photographer Richard Avedon was assigned to shoot the real Marilyn posing as Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Lillian Russell for a 1958 spread in LIFE. Later, Avedon mislaid the negatives. Then, last December, as he was unpacking books in the library of his new home at Montauk, N.Y., out plopped the photos. He was not so fond of the Dietrich on second viewing, but the four others still charmed him, and he is issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures...
Each spring brings Crimson headlines and angry letters from concerned students about yet another young, bright, talented teacher who has been denied promotion or tenure. More recent examples include Theda Skocpol, Molly Nolan, and the recently returned Charles Maier, to name but a few. It is clear to me that as much as I care about any one professor, the problem is systemic and must be addressed as such...
...example of Harvard's behavior that disturbs is the case of Theda Skoepal An assistant professor of Sociology, she was denied tenure in Harvard's Sociology Department by a 6 to 5 vote of 11 male sociologist. This occurred despite a brilliant research record (her book State and Social Revolutions reserved the American Sociological Association's highest award) and in the face of her clear ability as a teacher according to the October 18, 1981 New York Times Magazine story on the case. Skocpol "was an unusually continuous teacher." A three-person committee of Harvard professors selected to review...
Charging that Harvard has "a notorious disregard for hiring and promoting academic women," the 1500 member group. Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), filed their charges on behalf of Theda R. Skoepol, a former associate professor of Sociology, all women who have ever been employed by the Faculty, and "all women who could have been employed" on the Faculty...
...supporters of Brenner is Theda R. Skocpol, a former associate professor of Sociology at Harvard who was denied tenure last year and is an editor along with Brenner of Politics and Society, a scholarly left-wing journal...