Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Power pop does not mean pap, even though the songs are short, catchy, cunningly melodic, modeled after-and sometimes gently mocking-prime Top 40 material. The lyrics can really sap you with a sudden, gleeful surprise. One of Lowe's best tunes, Marie Provost, sounds like an innocuous remembrance of a faded silent-screen star until the first chorus comes up. Then the sweet little ditty becomes a carbolic valentine to an actress who died destitute in a cheap hotel and whose pet dachshund dined on her undiscovered remains. "She was a winner," Lowe sings, "then she became...
...trustees instead selected David C. Knapp, provost of Cornell University. Knapp will succeed Robert C. Wook, who resigned the UMass presidency in December partially because of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's budgetary program...
Other finalists for the post included Marily Gittell, associate provost of Brooklyn College and Randolph Bromery. Chancellor of UMass-Amherst, both of whom placed ahead of Vorenberg in the trustee election...
Knapp, a former Bullock fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, is a political scientist who became provost at Cornell in 1974. He has also served as dean of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell and directed the Institute of College and University Administrators at the American Council on Education...
Among the other candidates for the past are Charles Foster, dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and David Knapp, provost of Cornell University...