Word: endowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again, Jean-Pierre Leaud delivers a perfectly realized portrait of Antoine. Playing Truffaut's autobiographical self, Leaud has merged the three: Antoine, Truffaut and himself. The rest of the performances are equally superb. Claude Jade manages to endow the solemn Christine with a rare subtlety. Nicknamed Peggy Proper because of her almost British reserve, Jade allows this woman's wit and shy humor to shine out. Marie-France Pisier performs most of the heavy dramatics; she gives her Colette a certain desperation well-suited to a woman lawyer unable to get clients and reduced to turning tricks...
...investigate each donor and impose detailed moral standards." Once Harvard has accepted a gift, he protests, it should not renege on its agreement, because this "may inflict pain on relatives..." The pain inflicted on the donor's victims, of course, doesn't count as much: the oppressed rarely endow chairs...
Inflation eats away at the real value of the Harvard endowment, the guarantor of the University's immortality, even as the number of dollars in the portfolio reaches new heights. A major goal of the fund drive will be to raise money to endow chairs for current Faculty members, so the Faculty can re-allocate the money it now uses to pay them. Roughly $80 million in fund drive revenues will probably go towards this end, the largest single item on the fund drive's list, according to tentative figures supplied by Peter F. Clifton '49, director of the Harvard...
Harvard also negotiates the terms of donations. In 1971, the Corporation accepted $1 million to endow a chair in Korean studies from the Korean Traders Association, a quasi-governmental business group that practices the Tongsun Park style of public relations. Steiner said when the Koreans began dictating that its newly purchased professorship teach only economics, Harvard balked until the KTA agreed to leave educational decisions to the Faculty...
Some of the money may also be targeted for remodeling in Widener Library, and some may be used to endow student activities in the Houses, Glimp said...