Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Dyer-Bennet Great Barrington, Mass...
...down on its cord from the ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal (almost) as Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow...
Stockwell says that part of the problem with coordination between business and government is that the council doesn't give what he calls "too many pounds of respect for those who shape the town's economy and commerce," a point to which insurance executive Jack Dyer readily agrees. "Politicians here tell you that you ought to be more involved," says Dyer, "and then when you get more involved they tell you not to interfere--I'm not convinced what goes on [in City Council] Monday night is the answer...
What do most leaders in Cambridge today think is the answer? Many businessmen are quick to place their hopes with Chamber of Commerce President Jones, whom Dyer calls "a man of missionary zeal." While other community leaders look towards city manager Jim Sullivan. "I think we have a strong and vital leadership in Robert Jones," Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Coop, says. "I support him in trying to get things done. He represents the business community and recognizes the need of collaboration with neighborhood groups and other groups...
...Crane and all other entrepreneurs looked across the street to Harvard Trust for fiscal leadership. Robert R. Duncan, president of the bank during the fifties, a man whom business people in the Square still remember as a "mover and a shaker," proved to be the perfect spearhead. Insurance man Dyer grumbles about the current leadership scene saying that if you asked him who could move things in Harvard Square today, ten minutes later he still wouldn't be able to come up with a name. But, Dyer points out quickly, "If you had a problem in those days--then...