Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researcher Mary Cronin, whose childhood experience with dance was limited to ballet lessons, revisited for this story many choreographers and dancers whom she had met five years ago while working on a Rockefeller Fund project examining economic problems of the performing arts. After nearly a month of ballet going, she was inflicted with a recurring dream in which she was forced to dance in slippers far too large before a vast audience. The reality that Mary and the rest of our troupe found in American ballet makes a revealing story of new, inventive, uninhibited spirit...
...houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment plans and vocational training, organize a $500 million revolving-loan guarantee and insurance fund, and allot $30 million a year to build roads linking isolated Indian communities to the rest of society...
Myrdal, whose American Dilemma, published in 1944, remains the classic study of the U.S. Negro, was assigned by the Twentieth Century Fund to undertake a definitive study of South Asia's problems and prospects. The job took him ten years, including three spent traveling in the area, and his findings fill three volumes and 2,500 pages. Impatient with the Western tendency to defer to the heightened sensitivities of South Asian leaders and thereby pull their critical punches, Myrdal tells it like he sees it. Many of his conclusions will not only depress Westerners concerned about the area...
...construction worker), Cooke was ordained to the priesthood in 1945. In 1957, Spellman chose him to be his secretary. In 1965, after several rapid promotions, he became vicar general of the archdiocese, acting as Spellman's administrative deputy. He drew attention for being almost as good a fund raiser as Spellman and for his key role in arranging the Pope's 1965 visit to New York...
...partially up to them whether they want our help," said Michael Schreiber, chairman of SDS at B.U., "SDS will probably try some form of fund-raising...