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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signs of the trend include increased emphasis on the Kennedy School of Government's Public Policy program--a program labeled Bok's top fund-raising priority by fund-raising czar Chase N. Peterson '54, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Other indications are promoted interest in the Nieman Fellows program and in the Business School management programs...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Bok Says, Educate The Governors | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...impressed by the author's empathetic handling of hemophilia. The disease, characterized by uncontrolled bleeding, threatened the life of the young Czarevitch, made the lives of his father and mother into a nightmare, and helped lead to the fall of the Romanov family. By dealing with the Czar and Czarina as distraught parents, the book transformed them from foolish pawns of history into figures of personal tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood Will Tell | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Like Sergei Eisenstein's film classic-the score is based largely on Prokofiev's music for that movie-the ballet is an episodic, ponderously romanticized narrative about Czar Ivan IV. A madman and a tyrant, Ivan fought the feudal boyar nobles as well as invading enemies and managed to unite Russia during the 16th century. There are scenes evoking his struggle with the nobles, lyrical moments of happiness with his first wife, Anastasia, plotting by the boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ivan Is Terrible | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ivan Is Terrible | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

This line is seriously eroding Simon's influence in Congress. A year ago, when he was the nation's energy czar, even liberal Democrats viewed him as a pragmatic problem solver. Now many consider him a rigid conservative ideologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICYMAKERS: Simon: Lonely Voice, Less Influence | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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