Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the four Fellows, the treasurer of the Corporation and President James Conant '14 had voted, Conant himself dictated a letter outlining the reasons that there was to be no "Dr. Hanfstaengl scholarship". "We are unwilling to accept a gift," wrote Conant, "from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the Universities of Germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout the world...
...Hanfy" sent Conant another letter later that spring. "While I'm still not sure that I will be able to attend the reunion, I would like to offer a gift," said Hanfstaengl. The letter outlined the proposed scholarship, which was to "enable an outstanding Harvard student, preferably the son of my old classmates, to study in Germany in any field of art or science." The traveling scholarship was good for a year, six months to be spent in "Germany's cultural center" and Hanfy's native city, Munich...
...recession in 1979 be likely to hurt the industry much. Cosmetics sales traditionally continue rising during a mild economic downturn, and dip only slightly in a severe one. Some top-of-the-line items benefit from hard times: a man who wants to give a woman a stunning gift but decides that a $150 handbag, say, would leave his wallet too thin, may select a $50 bottle of perfume. In the low-priced field, remarks Bergerac, any woman can spend $2.25 for a lipstick that will brighten her mood as well as her appearance. Says he: "When things get rough...
...Dance, Art and Ritual of Africa by Michel Huet. Text by Jean-Louis Paudrat. (Pantheon; 241 pages; $35). The dancing black African in mask and full feather has become an anthropological cliche, reproduced tirelessly in lavish gift books. French Photographer Michel Huet triumphantly reclaims the subject in these 261 photographs taken during the past 30 years. Focusing on the tribes of the vast sub-Sahara, Muet has assembled a vivid and invaluable record of African costumes, rituals and artistic traditions that are fading before the winds and transistors of change. In the Gallic manner, both text and pictures are presented...
They begin turning up this time of year as reliably as gaudy lights and the Salvation Army, and with furrowed brows they hand the public a unique gift-clear warnings about the morbid hazards that lurk in the traditional seasonal celebrations. They are the jolly diagnosticians, and they dirge forth chanting their own anthem, a sort of Fugue for Handwringers, the gist of which is that there may be poisoned plums in the pudding...