Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funnels loan applications to the SBA, is to "give people the self-confidence to go into business for themselves. You can't start big, with grand programs. But when neighbors see that somebody's made it with a new store, they'll try harder." SBA Administrator Bernard Boutin vows to try harder too. As a start, he has ordered his staff to "go out into the ghettos" and find more people who seem to have the potential to run a business...
...such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux limits its production to about 75 adult titles a year, including the books of Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud, who prefer their publisher to be small, cozy and literary...
...decline of isolation among minority groups has brought about what Bernard Malamud calls "a flowering of interest in minorities generally." This may help explain the strong popularity of Jewish writers, Malamud included, who are obviously read far beyond the Jewish audience...
...site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...
...Volts," Becaud is more popular than Beaujolais. At his February concert at Paris' Olympia music hall, where he holds the record for most performances, his visitors included Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of the French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening to Becaud of a powerful motor turning at its maximum...