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...does Princess Grace think she is, anyway? Last week in St.-Tropez, Sammy Davis Jr. counted up the snubs he had received in her domain. When he graciously agreed to headline the opening gala of Monte Carlo's posh new Sporting Club, Sammy accepted $30,000 in expenses, plus a specially hired eight-berth yacht. Still, the way he saw it, "I was giving a free performance." Then there was the matter of his arrival. "There was no one to meet me at the airport," he groused, ignoring the Air France director, the pretty girls bearing flowers...
Crooks oversees this motley assortment of courses, activities and programs from an office high up in Holyoke Center, where he gazes out the window at his short-lived annual domain while he talks about the summer school. "The trouble is that Harvard is institution-oriented, not people-oriented," he says. "I come from a background where this kind of elitism is anathema, but I'm pulled both ways...
...commonsensible and undoctrinaire will describe himself or herself complacently as middle-of-the-road. So loosely defined a term, as with the similar pride in being an "independent voter," invites a lot of freeloaders. The middle is thus the natural hiding place for the uninvolved. It includes in its domain hordes of the indifferent, who call themselves tolerant, and of the uncaring, who think themselves pragmatic and flexible. Such people are apt to congratulate themselves on being superior to those who strive, who get worked up, who agitate for causes, who make demands and air grievances, and who disturb...
When President Bok came into office, he set about to disperse the management of Harvard's financial affairs. And when Walter M. Cabot '55 takes over management of Harvard's portfolio in two weeks, Bennett's domain in the University's financial world will have been reduced to his chairmanship of the University Committee on Resources, hardly equal to his previous stronghold...
...view from the inside is that Bennett's style of financial management was wholly incompatible from the outset with Bok's plan to disperse responsibility and power in all facets of his administration. Bennett, like John Dunlop, former dean of Faculty, had too much power in his particular domain. In addition, Bok and most of the members of the Corporation found themselves at odds with Bennett's attitudes toward shareholder responsibility, investment policy and other aspects of Harvard's financial dealings...