Word: endowent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mclver's intentions unfortunately outrun his wit; the jokes are just not bright enough to shine up the cliches about Whitey's hypocrisies-ecclesiastical and lay. But the players of the Negro Ensemble, under the direction of Michael A. Schultz, endow this "minstrel-morality play" with a lively inventiveness and bounce it was never born with. Arthur French and David Downing are notable as a comic couple of end men in whiteface out to stage a "traditional American lynching" on a long-suffering black man (Julius Harris). There is some show-stopping (if irrelevant) footwork by a trio...
...student, Edward Sanders '72, feels that what is really needed is a black professor to teach the course. He said Harvard should endow a chair in Afro-American Affairs and give it to a black professor...
Author Gilroy clearly identifies with Timmy, but he does not endow him with heroism, nor does he stain the parents with villainy. Nettie can tryannize one moment and pathetically beg $5 house money in the next. John cuffs his son as if he were a schoolboy, but in the end he helps him make the only correct decision-to leave the vortex of rivalry before he gets swept up in its forces and destroyed...
...Business School announced yesterday that Loeb's firm had provided $100,000 to establish the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship Fund, which will endow two fellowships annually for students concentrating in finance...
...major effort to find out what other kinds of things work in upgrading the slums, the Ford Foundation last week announced that it will grant $10,800,000 to four universities-Chicago, Harvard, M.I.T. and Columbia-for studies of inner-city problems. The money will allow the universities to endow 14 major chairs in urbanology, provide also for the training of 65 doctoral candidates, 390 graduate students and 390 undergraduates...