Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without having access to an attorney. It may be said that freedom of inquiry, opinion, speech and dissemination of thought does not exist. There are taboo questions which cannot be discussed such as all matters concerning the President's family, the dictatorship the extra-budgetary revenues of the Regie du Tabac [state-controlled tobacco industry] etc. There is recourse to procedures such as warnings and admonitions of increasing severity to journalists, issued by the Ministry of the Interior, there is also prior censor ship, closing of newspapers, threats, assaults and incarcerations...
Taylor has always tested limits. Older pieces (going back as far as 1956) included in the current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas...
...vote, with one abstention, the ACSR--which advises the Corporation on the ethical implications of Harvard's investment policy--voted to support a resolution sponsored by several Church groups that calls on Du Pont to half its management of the Savannah River plant. At the South Carolina plant. Du Pont produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons, as well as conducting research on nuclear arms for the U.S. Department of Energy...
Harvard owns about $500.000 of stock in Du Pont, according to the latest University financial report, which covers the fiscal year ending June...
Despite last night's ACSR recommendation, it appears likely that the Corporation--which has the final say on how Harvard votes in proxy resolutions will abstain on the Du Pont resolution. Thus far this year, members of the Corporation have abstained on nearly all the nuclear weapons-related issues that have arisen in companies in the University portfolio. The Corporation last week abstained on a similar resolution--which the ACSR supported--calling on General Electric to end its management of the Pinellas nuclear weapons plant...