Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Albert H. Gordon '23, chairman of the Fund, said last week that the Fund is caught in an economic bind. Inflationary pressures have made an annual increase in alumni giving imperative to meet the costs of higher education, but the economic decline of the country has combined with alumni uneasiness over student unrest to hold back the needed increase...
...This is an over-generalization, but some people instinctively don't like giving money," Gordon said last Wednesday. "If they have a good rationalization to stop giving they will, and once they stop, they won't start again. The economic conditions have kept us from getting any new contributors...
...today, the economic factors are the most important. The graduates feel that the 'lunacy', to use Steve Kelman's word, has ceased," Gordon said, referring to Push Comes to Shove, a critique of Harvard radicalism by Steven J. Kelman...
...Gordon maintained, however, that the alumni's uneasiness towards the "conditions" at Harvard precipitated the decline in alumni giving, while the economic factors have only compounded the problem...
...actor could be found with the proper mix of informality and authority to fill the role of Gordon, a black schoolteacher. The staff wanted someone like Matt Robinson, one of the show's producers, so Matt auditioned and won the part. He toned down his network accent, came on strong as the father figure many kids miss. So strong, in fact, that it emphasized the sweetness of Loretta Long, who plays his wife. She has been compared to a candy cordial, chocolate outside, syrup within. The rest of the cast is white: Bob McGrath, a singer with irrepressibly high spirits...