The training director: middle-man at mid-life.
For all that, Goold's background is standard-issue theatre director (middle-class London upbringing, independent school, first in English at Cambridge); the director "really struggled after graduating".
It holds up for C-level executives compared to directors and middle managers.
It's tempting to be cynical about Hollywood indulging in metaphysics, with more movies like "Ghost" and "Defending Your Life" materializing as producers and directors enter middle age and start sensing their own mortality.
"Being on a college campus makes a difference from a motivational point of view," said Arthur Greenberg, a New York University education professor who was one of the early directors of Middle College High School.
Although all the directors were middle-class, these films attempted to depict Britain from a working-class point of view.
Sue Ruskin-MaYonkersNov.s, Nov. 7, 2005 The writer is director of middle school general education at the Bank Street College of Education.
Most funeral directors are middle-age or older and, as Nancy Keil, a director at Messinger, put it, are "touchy-feely kind of people".
Until March, she was the admissions evaluator at the Browning School in New York, where she is to become the director of middle and upper school admissions in September.
"If the refugee moratorium is lifted, and the original refugee acceptance numbers are re-established, then the most vulnerable Syrian refugees will have a home outside of Syria to come to and that includes many children who can often bear the brunt of the violence inside Syria," said Sunjeev Bery, advocacy director for Middle East-North Africa issues at Amnesty International USA.
