Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck, N.J.-and is known to be somewhat parsimonious. His cigars, complain his associates, do not carry a banker-like aroma. (One of his first acts, nonetheless, will probably be to remove the NO SMOKING signs Chairman Miller installed in the Fed boardroom.) Volcker...
...indicates, the man Jimmy Carter chose last week as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is not the type to compromise on important principles. The reports of his political demise were premature. Ten years after he stood up to Davis, Landrieu built a coalition of black and upper-middle-class white voters and was elected mayor of his native New Orleans. He appointed blacks to high-level city jobs and, up until his very last days in office, continued to pressure the city's business elite tobe more responsive to the black community and to the area...
...list have done exceptionally well, many have assumed increasingly important posts, and the lives of a few have illustrated the perils that beset those who would fill leadership roles in present-day America. "We are still anticipating our unfulfilled promise," says Bill Moyers, a member of the Class of 200 who remains one of the most perceptive journalists on public television. Roughly half of those on the original list are playing much the same leadership roles as they did five years ago. A quarter seem to be exerting greater impact. The rest have lost standing or influence, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes...
...Bartlett Giamatti, 41. The Yale faculty cheered last spring when a humanist was chosen to lead the institution during its days of austerity. A man who loves the Red Sox and Renaissance literature, Giamatti is a true blue (class of '60 and teacher since '66). The youngest president of Yale in 200 years, Giamatti faces the challenge of reducing a $19 million deficit without sacrificing the quality of education. So far, he has begun a complete review of operating costs and instituted stiff cutbacks in the nonacademic staff. "I hope to see a Yale College with fewer students, a curriculum...
...wisdom of 500 years. He can shrivel a potential rival with a burning glance, and back it up with action. No matter that he never sees the sunlight--the day is evil and harsh; it is for playing ball and going to school and applying fresh Clearasil after every class. Daylight means exposure. Whereas Dracula haunts the shadows, dissolves into a puff of smoke, a wolf or a bat. And he can hide his hard-on in his cape...