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...What we decide to study is completely up to us." Folkman says, adding that "this grant is not any different in terms of responsibility to the funder than a grant from the government...
...Cushing never sought the role that he retained for 26 years. From the beginning, he wanted to be a missionary. In 1962, he tried to resign in order to finish his career in the missions of Latin America. Instead, he remained a founder-and funder-of mission work, even establishing his own Society of St. James the Apostle for work in Latin America. His ability to raise money for the church at home and abroad was prodigious-a total of more than $100 million in 26 years. Just before Christmas in 1961, he raised $2,900,000 in cash...
...that's been a problem we face with every funding agency: there is always the question of persuading the funder that you are doing something worthwhile for him. To say that we aren't influenced by the people using our research would be foolish, but this is a fair bargain between two parties: very often, contact with practical applications is quite fruitful for academics...
...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...