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Frances J. Toland, athletic business manager at Harvard for 22 years, became the new associate director of athletics July 1. John P. Reardon, Jr., '60, director of athletics, announced this week...
...Toland will fill the post that was vacant for nearly a year after Adronike Janus left Harvard in March of 1980 to become director of admissions and athletics at Wheaton College...
...salary: $280 a week), a 23-piece orchestra, a conductor and assistant and five-member crew, all of whom have got into costume for the productions. Audience taste tends to restrict TOT'S repertory to the best-known works, which are sung in English. Says Company Manager Jim Toland, 36: "What else can you bring to someone who has never seen opera before but the great ones?" There is a little experimentation: Donizetti's Don Pasquale will be reset in modern Cuba. TOT is also limited to operas in which the chorus is not essential and which...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller Nature and Culture, Barbara Novak No Man's Land, John Toland Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
...conventional view that modern wars decide nothing, and that, in any case, individuals have no effect on their outcome. Toland cannot manage the magic of historic imagination that will make a reader really believe, as many Frenchmen and Englishmen believed in 1918, that the Germans were about to win the war. But it is hard to read his book without concluding that the course of these sprawling, murderous battles was often changed by individuals or small groups of men, whose sense of honor, courage, comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example...