Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The show-after a sprightly start-skitters irresolutely about in a diversity of moods on a variety of subjects, now proffering a dash of pageantry and now a dab of legend, now sending off Merlin early, now calling in Mordred late, here with some medieval jousting, there with a too...
More and more, professors are called away to advise on everything from the design of skyscrapers to the polishing of presidential candidates. The trend is filling professorial pockets, if not student heads. The average full professor at top U.S. campuses earns less than $12,000 a year, but highly extracurricular...
Harvard's famed facultymen make as much as $1,000 a lecture, and some chemistry professors earn the same fee per day advising drug companies. At the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of the 108-man faculty do sideline consulting, and 28 are officers and directors of corporations. Professor...
Bad for Harvard? All of this outside hustle strikes some critics as bad for Harvard. Boston Attorney Francis H. Burr, member of the Harvard Corporation, admits that "a lot of people are concerned and so are we." But he also says that "many professors are worth more to the university...
There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a...