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From Harvard, most of Bok's key lieutenants mingled including Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, Vice President for Finance Thomas O'Brien, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education Patricia A. Graham. Chancellor of UMass Joseph Duffey represented his school, and perhaps as many as 100 legislators, led by chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee Chester G. Atkins, along with leaders of the House and Senate Education committees. Senate president William Bulger reportedly indicated he was coming, but never showed...
...called Derek in July and suggested that we might do this together," Duffey said, explaining how the first such gala in recent Harvard memory took shape. He proposed it to symbolize the cooperation between public and private universities. "Of course we are both interested in the legislature," he added...
Bennett's sense of direction may be admirably emphatic, but some humanists are fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White...
After Shils' broadside, National Endowment Chairman Joseph Duffey manfully defended Shils' freedom of speech, but emphasized that the scholar's opinions were not those of the NEH. Said he: "Personally, I support the principle that there are some limited, but critical, larger needs of a society from which a university is not immune." So does Shils. His list is a small and cautious one, though. Universities, he feels, are obliged to offer access to higher education for all who qualify, to provide training in those professions that have an intellectual component (such as law and medicine), to make expert advice...
...less than a twelve-hour day. Saturday is spent at the office, planning for the following week. Says a White House aide: "The only person around here who is even better prepared for a meeting is Jimmy Carter." She also lunches regularly on Saturday with her second husband, Joseph Duffey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are one of Washington's most powerful couples. Their combined federal salaries: $108,000. Each has two grown sons by previous marriages...