Word: californiaisms
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Richard Lichtman is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Yale. "He's as close as we can get to the ideological leader of the New Left," said one Berkeley grad student. The following is excerpts from a speech--"The Ideological Function of the University" -- which Lichtman presented at the Berkeley Faculty Peace Committee's "Convocation on the War and the University" in April of this year...
...business. Before the rest of the industry awoke to the advantages of big-scale operation, he snapped up 18 other associations to form, almost overnight, the first major S. & L. chain. By offering to split profits with cash-shy builders, he soon grabbed a commanding share of the Southern California home-loan market...
...were paid a terrific price for virtually no risk." On top of that, Home bought up vast chunks of land that it is still selling at a hefty markup to builder-borrowers. With deft timing, Home cut back on loans for tracts of new houses before the great Southern California glut of 1965 and switched to apartments. This year the association itself is building three sizable apartment houses...
...been building monuments as well. He contributed $2,000,000 to help construct the Los Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely...
Ahmanson had a brief fling at politics when he managed Republican Goodwin Knight's successful campaign for Governor of California...