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There was no elaboration on Sinatra's pedagogical plans. Pressagent Jim Mahoney said: "I don't know of any professorship, but he may be open for one." It is questionable how long a mercurial and sleepless man like Sinatra can be happy as a professional dropout, ruminating and writing. The penultimate paragraph of his statement refers to a "breather" rather than complete retirement. As Bob Regehr, an executive of Sinatra's recording company, said last week: "I have yet to recall an entertainer who stayed in retirement. A great artist is a great artist. How many times...
...month before Kissingers tenure ended last Jan. 20, the Government Department unanimously voted an expression of hope that he would return, and decided to hold vacant his professorship for at least a year...
Jerome Bruner, professor of Psychology and Master of Currier House, announced last week that he is leaving Harvard in June, 1972 to accept the newly-established Watts professorship in psychology at Oxford University...
Appointments to stay on are only brief respites; chances for tenure are slim. "They were quite blunt about it," says a young Harvard Ph.D. who was recently awarded an assistant professorship. "They said my appointment was as terminal as cancer." The result is bitterness toward the System. "I personally feel sold out," concludes Tom Lifson, 23, a sometime antiwar organizer now studying for a Ph.D. "All this time we were told how important it was for us to go to graduate school and how much we could do for ourselves and the country...
...Norton professorship-held since 1925 by visiting scholars who lecture on the arts-has been filled in the past by such men as T.S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn, R Buckminster Fuller, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Lionel Trilling...