Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John F. Kennedy School of Government, and moving the school's quarters from Littauer Center to the Library site at the repair yards of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Court agreed with Harvard that neither of these changes violates the terms of Lucius N. Littauer's gift establishing the School...
...white intolerance but one of white power; the aim is no longer to get into a white neighborhood, but to weaken the grip of the white power structure. The angry men of Watts are out to claim their birthright, not to ask for it as though it were a gift. To the young nationalists, no white man, regardless of his ethics, can serve a useful function in the movement, because his very color gives him a freedom that he can't negate...
...cadeau pour Chicago," said Pablo Picasso. "It's a donation, a gift for Chicago." With those words, the Windy City became the recipient of one of the most magnificent windfalls in its history: Picasso's $100,-000 design for a 50-ft. sculpture to stand in front of the city's new $87 million civic center. Also without charge, the Spanish master-who will turn 85 next month-threw in his original 42-in. maquette for the Chicago Art Institute...
...announcing the gift last week, Architect William Hartmann, a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the three firms involved in designing the civic center, revealed that Picasso's design will be executed in ever-rusting Cor-ten steel, the same material as the 31-story building. "This is not a cast that bears the thumbprint of the artist," said Hartmann. "Picasso created some thing that has to be constructed like a building." To do so will cost $300,000, a tab to be assumed by three private foundations. If all goes well, the sculpture will be installed...
Writer-Director Carlos Saura's achievement is to arouse concern for a markedly unsympathetic crew in a credible horror story, drawing upon the well-documented history of mankind's particular gift for committing violence against his own species...