Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST grandiose claim that Peter Collier and David Horowitz make about their huge new history of the Rockefeller family is that while "the Rockefellers had suffered from being treated either as saints or demons," they "would be part of neither camp." They're right about that --although the family has discreetly attacked the book--and their success at presenting a view of the Rockefellers that is not only objective but deep and understanding as well is genuinely impressive...
...Rockefeller family secrets were members of the alienated fourth generation of the dynasty, the great-grandchildren of the first John D. Rockefeller, the first members of the family who were not accustomed to being completely in control of the people around them. These Rockefeller Cousins apparently gave Collier and Horowitz access to parts of the vast family archives without trying, as their parents and grandparents had, to put the writers on the family payroll or to interfere substantially in their work...
...Collier has worked out the pain formula is unfair to certain Houses," Katherine Fulton '78, CHUL representative from Winthrop House, said yesterday...
...Bains '77, CHUL representative from Kirkland House, said yesterday he will introduce a motion at the next CHUL meeting asking Collier "to reconsider the pain factor and devise a system that is more equitable to all the Houses...
...know there's something wrong here regardless of Collier's mountain of facts and statistics," Bains added...