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...those prices, scarcely a ticket holder failed to appear at last week's Manhattan benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The guest of honor of the evening, which starred Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, was First Lady Betty Ford in a flowing purple Halston gown. She was escorted by Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad only in a solid gold mesh dancer's belt. After his performance, the very...
...Cramer's Brass Tacks in the Crimson (April 26, 1975) smacks of the pretention that has become common place in all relationships between "Town and Gown" as well as other institutions vs. community conflicts. The dilemma described in Cramer's article will never really be resolved in a political system like ours, for the contradictions are inherent in the nature of our social/political life. Yet it is interesting that Cramer uses the same tools often used in institution vs. community arguments and it is about these strategies that my comments are related...
Frustrated Cambridge residents this week renewed a perennial town-gown conflict over the tax-exempt status of Harvard and MIT by demanding that city officials find ways to force "the wealthiest institutions and individuals in this city to pay their fair share...
Each year Harvard and MIT voluntarily pay a combined total of $800,000 to the city in partial compensation for their tax-exempt status. City Manager James L. Sullivan on Monday said this town gown arrangement has been a model for university communities elsewhere in the country. "Frankly," he said, "it's not required. And it's a generous addition to the city rolls...
...Town-Gown Down...