Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellon gift is one of 11 grants presented to East Asian centers in the country...
...center may receive $600,000 from the Ford Foundation if it can be matched by three times that amount. The Mellon gift will be used to help reach the $1.8 million needed...
...other. Penetrating sociological insight may not be Corry's forte--anyone looking for a portrayal of the rise and fall of the Irish-American ethic would be better off reading Edwin O'Connor's brilliant The Last Hurrah. Yet like many another Irishman, Corry has a real gift for story-telling. Within the contours of his historical narrative lurk all the denizens of the fantasy-world that became the home of the Irish aristocracy: the friendly politicians eager to hobnob with the new barons of industry, the neighboring WASP lords eager to secure a feudal alliance with the pillars...
...author is, of course, one of the leading members of the liberal Establishment. He is also a kind of patrician socialist who argues in his new book for public ownership of urban land, public auditors instead of boards of directors for corporations, and the gift of food, housing, health care, education and money to the poor. He has a pessimistic view of human nature, but it principally applies to the rich and powerful. "People of privilege," he writes, "will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." Even F.D.R., the Squire of Hyde Park...
...Bronowski's The Ascent of Man hung in the air. All of this would be distributed for various TV and educational outlets around the U.S. It might have been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift. Enraged by city officials' criticisms of the plan, Annenberg, after taking out an imperious warning ad in the New York Times, canceled the project. He made it plain that the center would be built elsewhere-perhaps, a rumor had it, in San Francisco...