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Both Cotton and Sister Janet Eisner, president of Emmanuel College and chair of AICUM for this academic year, said stable economic sectors such as private higher education are important to the struggling Massachusetts economy...
Shortly after arriving at Disney in 1984, Eisner had his first working dinner with some of the company's executives and offhandedly suggested they build a hotel in the shape of Mickey Mouse. They were shocked -- and galvanized. But some of the Old Guard was not amused. Ground had already been broken at Epcot for a new hotel complex, and Disney's partner in the project was determined to hire a conventional architect to create a conventionally upscale hotel -- a meretricious riot of Trumpian brass and glass. Eisner, however, wanted Graves, at the time the hottest architect in the country...
...Disney. We've got to have the biggest, the best, the most tasteful," says Eisner. Most tasteful is a new Disney superlative, yet taste and aesthetic surprise and a certain rigor are what make the recent architectural fantasies more than Vegas kitsch or shopping-mall saccharine...
...Disney has a reputation among architects (as among filmmakers) for tightfistedness and micromanagement. On each project Eisner is brought in five times to review the plans, approving masonry textures, paint colors and light fixtures. One reason the chairman says he meddles more in the design of a hotel than he does, for instance, in the production of The Marrying Man is that "movies go away, but buildings stand as monuments to your bad taste." Plus he thinks he's good at inspiring architects. "I know how to make creative people see that something is not as good as they...
...Eisner is ambitious in the best sense. Like the founder of his company, or an overgrown child, he thinks big and will not take no for an answer. He wants to redeem Walt Disney's dream for Epcot -- it was supposed to be an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- by creating a new town on 3,800 acres at the southern end of his Florida fiefdom. Eisner's vision is a mixture of the predictable ("the biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build...