Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December issue, Ramparts magazine has put some fire on its cover, but what's burning is not exactly yule logs. Three Ramparts editors and the art director are holding aloft their burning draft cards in a kind of New Left salute. Inside, Editor Warren Hinckle III writes: "If you're looking for an editorial in the usual place this month, forget it. It's on the cover...
...Though all of them are over the usual draft cutoff age of 26. In addition, Hinckle is blind in one eye, Assistant Managing Editor Sol Stern has a medical deferment, and Art Director Dugald Stermer is married and a father...
...dramatic rebirth of New York's parks, three men have played key roles. John Lindsay had the vision to understand the role that parks play in an urban society. Thomas Hoving, his first Parks Commissioner, now director of the Metropolitan Museum, has the genius to translate Lindsay's vision into spectacular "happenings" that reoriented the attitudes of an entire city toward its parks. And August Heckscher, the present commissioner, is expanding on Hoving's work and creating a structure that will make it endure...
Heckscher is a scholar and a historian. He came to the Lindsay Administration in March 1967 from the Twentieth Century Fund, a small research foundation, where for fifteen years he pursued a quiet, academic life as the Fund's director--and served from 1961-1963 as President Kennedy's Special Consultant on the Arts...
Putting the neighborhood philosophy into practices is the job of Courtney Calender, director of the Parks Department's Office of Community Relations. Calender, a young Lindsay radical, explains Heckscher's philosophy in the context of city-wide decentralization. "It's simple," he says...