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When Mildred B. Bliss died in 1969, leaving Harvard sole custodian of what had been her elegant Washington, D.C., home and 16-acre garden, she stressed in her will that the estate's trees were "not to be neglected or lightly destroyed...
...Bliss and her husband, Robert W. Bliss, formally transferred their estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard to house the Center for Byzantine Studies. Later a collection of pre-Columbian art and a library of garden design were added...
...company's big problem right now is to try to get all its lights going on a regular basis. Levine, 32, formally takes over next fall but in fact is already installed in the job. He is part of a troika headed by Executive Director Anthony A. Bliss, who has the final say on everything. But as an administrator, Bliss has declared his intention of staying out of day-to-day artistic decisions. Below him are Levine and Production Director John Dexter, 50, a stage director who has worked at the National Theater in England and on Broadway...
...support, the committee demanded a detailed accounting of why the Review's expected "take-off" into the national market fizzled. 1975-76 became a time for re-evaluation of the Review by its editors, with some startling conclusions. Incoming Review president George H. White '77 calls Mendelson's and Bliss's conceptions of what it would take to break into the national market "idealistic and unrealistic." "They talked to people over at the Harvard Business Review, and not to other political journals," says White...
Saylor terms the Mendelson period an "identity crisis--we were losing our identity as a political journal." White agrees: "Rick and Tim viewed the Review more as a marketable product than anything else. Their entrepreneurial spirit was permeating the editorial staff." Saylor says that Mendelson and Bliss's pursuit of professional content and production and a firm financial base "soon became transformed into a sort of entrepreneurial game. With all the interest in marketing we kind of lost sight of what kind of magazine we were putting out." Even the SAC had harsh words for Mendelson and Bliss: "Nothing like...