Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years they've been supporting their over-seventy janitor, Elmer Green (who's done nothing but impersonate dignitaries on magazine covers), in their cellar. And as soon as the Lampoon can afford it, they plan to move him to a nicer apartment in Somerville . . . so they can "build a darkroom down there...
...have to change my Ministers to cope with the situation." The job Nixon now faces is to persuade the South Vietnamese President to accept the prospect of some kind of agreement with the Communists, without at the same time undercutting the fragile stability that Thieu has managed to build up in Saigon...
...Hickory Hill estate. The District of Columbia stadium will be renamed for Robert F. Kennedy, as will ski slopes, chapels, high schools and bridges around the U.S. A game preserve in far away Tanzania will also be dedicated in his name. Congress has authorized $750,000 to build an access road and other improvements at his Arlington grave site. In the last year, five and a half million visitors have filed quietly past his grave, not far from the eternal flame that commemorates his elder brother, whom he later joined in the pantheon of American leaders...
Whenever a new project stalls for lack of funds, a cry rises to the effect of "Well, if we're worth a billion dollars and we have the largset endowment of any private university in the country, why can't we spend a few puny millions to build . . ." a new athletic building for instance. That billion is capital (Bennett stressed), and once we start cutting into capital we're going to get busted...
Without these financial arguments the high fees and admissions process would be seen as glaring bias and pressure might build to turn Harvard into a merit-based institution. That would be the sort of place, as Dean Bender pointed out, which the two Roosevelts would hardly have been "admitted to or would have wanted to enter. . . . " This last, of course, is crucial. Bender makes it quite clear that -- financial arguments aside -- Harvard perceives as its purpose the education of the real leaders of tomorrow. And with firm sociological insight, it recognizes that potential leaders are most likely...