Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasingly specialized realm of international finance, Jean-Claude Aaron has scratched a big niche; he calls himself a constructeur-promoteur...
...ambitious project had been stalled for a decade-until the developer, the U.S.'s Collins Tuttle & Co., in 1969 recognized that only a well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of a small bank, as co-developer. Aristocratic, war-decorated Aaron, 57, steered the project through a thicket of government regulations. He also helped to stitch together an all-French syndicate of 40 banks, insurance companies and pension funds to finance it. Aaron not only received a fee for his services...
...building's unrelieved ugliness and monstrous scale have prompted French editorialists, architects and private citizens to rage against it. Partly in response to the public outcry, the Municipal Council has imposed a height limitation of 80 ft. on all new construction in the city. Disagreeing, Aaron says: "Either we want to keep Paris as a museum or we want Paris to live." Now, as a member of a mostly French group that includes the Chase Manhattan Bank, Aaron is negotiating to develop an eight-acre site in the heart of Boston...
...snipes at sportswriters several times, typing them as simple-minded hacks who don't understand what's really important in the world. Last spring, he remembers, "the scribes were writing about Aaron's race for Ruth...about whether or not Mays should be playing. Could Oakland do it again? These were typical topics. My own mind drifted to...Curt Flood[,who] had sacrificed his career to fight the reserve clause...
...Aaron is at his best in covering this material; the book is the best of any of his work so far. He is scholarly without being abstruse; he writes directly and very well. The Unwritten War Daniel Aaron proves again that he is one of the finest contemporary critics of American history and literature...