Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Bucks. William S. Olney '46, director of corporations and foundations in the development office, says this conclave of presidents, board chairmen, and directors tries to woo potential munificent givers by convincing them that by helping Harvard (to distort the old saying), they'll be helping themselves: "Say they approach a major chemical company and ask them to contribute to some new chem labs; they would try to demonstrate that if the Chem Department suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth, the world would be a very poor place...
...else gets. Moss edits Foreign Report, a trenchant publication associated with London's conservative Economist. He has written two other books that received positive reviews, but this is the first attempt at fiction for the reporters. It shows--their writing undermines their well-conceived plot. Too often their characters approach cliche, the writing is choppy, and when they reach for poetry, they come up with doggerel. They're at their worst when they describe the women characters in the story-all stereotypes. There is Tessa Torrance, national sex symbol turned terrorist sympathizer; Julie Cummings, the young woman on the move...
...that have dotted his career. "Sometimes maybe I've erred in failing to be sensitive enough to the concerns of some constituents who feel deeply about, and even offended by, the presentation of ideas. There is danger in a University environment of being too cautions about confronting ideas. My approach is not to shy away from ideas," he says...
There are no frills, a bootcamp approach shared with the Navy's Alcohol Rehabilitation Service in Long Beach, Calif., which has treated Betty Ford and Billy Carter. Residents at Long Beach make beds and scrub toilets, but at MARRinc they are also expected to shop for groceries, cook and tend the yard. There are no live-in housekeepers. Says Ann Martin, the Atlanta Junior League's representative on MARRinc's executive board: "A number of interim care facilities have somebody to do everything for you but attend the therapy groups...
...hosts tried virtually everything to protect their guests from boredom. The Duke of Devonshire installed a private theater at Chatsworth, and Lord Pembroke held an annual cricket week at Wilton. The Duke of Westminster was famous for his shoots. At half past ten, recalled one visitor, the Duke would approach the gentlemen in the crowd and inquire, "Care to come out and see if we can pick up a pheasant or two?" By lunchtime a thousand dead birds littered the grounds. "The Duke never shot after lunch," noted one visitor, "but while he was shooting, he liked to be busy...