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...this University among them. But it also does more bad things than those who benefit from it, including this University, have been willing to admit. The assumptions implicit in Harvard's dependence on corporate capitalism--without which it cannot survive-are intolerable unless it works actively to bring the benefactor in line with the humanitarian attitude the University claims to represent, and without which its survival is equally threatened...
Turkey feathers may serve well enough for Boy Scouts in summer-camp loincloth dances, but not for authentic Indians. To Wisconsin's Winnebago tribe, the wingspan of the soaring eagle symbolizes a canopy of protection sent down by a great benefactor...
...couldn't believe it," observed a Western military adviser there. "Here was the representative of his No. 1 wartime ally going off to discussions with the benefactor of his No. 1 enemy, and Thieu wasn't informed in advance. It was an incredible insult by the Americans...
...traditional idea of personal charity seems pointless. The liberal posture, devolved from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's welfare state, holds that benefits for the poor, the sick, the needy are in fact their civil right, and should not be dependent on the largesse of some kindhearted, well-heeled benefactor. In this view, charity is a dirty word, a patronizing concept...
...candidates, McCloskey is in the tightest financial bind. His sole big-time benefactor is California Industrialist Norton Simon, who so far has given $40,000. Otherwise, McCloskey has had to appeal to the small giver. "Pete McCloskey," read an ad in last week's New York Times, "would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an oldfashioned, democratic idea...