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...recently as last month, the newspaper said, Keith asked other developers to buy $100 tickets to a late May fundraiser for state Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald (D-Boston). Fitzgerald is House chairman of the Housing and Urban Development committee. The Developers Council also turned out in force at a 1986 fundraiser for Fitzgerald's Senate housing committee counterpart, Sen. Frederick Berry (D-Peabody...
...still seem preoccupied with their personal ambitions. In an effort to encourage moral inquiry, Coles taught a special ethics class at the business school this spring, using characters and incidents from novels and short stories to dramatize the need for broader values. During one class focused on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Coles called out a cadence of four words from the book: "Tolerance, kindness, forbearance, affection." Then he asked, "Can these lessons be taught? Should we teach them here? Will these + qualities increase our nation's GNP?" One student thought not, arguing, "It is difficult...
Following that purist philosophy, he dislikes such popular favorites as Linda Ronstadt (he actually sneers when he mentions her name), Frank Sinatra ("too hip for me") and Ella Fitzgerald. "Unquestionably a beautiful voice," he says of Ella, "but I never got a sense she connected with the lyrics. She never churned my kishkes -- that's Yiddish for intestines." His list of favorites is just as idiosyncratic. It includes Minnelli, of course, but also Rosemary Clooney ("she does everything a singer should do"), Gogi Grant ("she has an emotional intensity and is much underrated") and Martha Raye ("her voice was like...
...nominee, Frances FitzGerald '62, is a well-known and well-respected left-wing author. She is also a member of the editorial advisory board of The Nation, as solid a leftist credential as there is. And Sen. Gore is certainly no appeaser of apartheid. He voted last summer for particularly harsh sanctions against South Africa. That will certainly have more effect on conditions there than Harvard hemming and hawing and "taking a stand for the values of equality and freedom that we ostensibly hold sacrosanct...
...introduction, FitzGerald recalls that America was founded by visionaries such as John Winthrop, who told his Puritan followers that they were creating a city on a hill and that the eyes of the world would thus be upon them. "The remarkable thing," FitzGerald concludes, "was that four centuries later Americans were still self-consciously building cities on a hill." And thanks to her, we are able ourselves to view them...