Word: grahamism
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...Washington bureau 15 years later, will intrigue any fan of bureaucratic politics. Stacks makes clear that Reston used every ploy of the classic man on the make. He sought and flattered professional patrons. He was useful and devoted to the Sulzberger family, which owned the Times--and to Katharine Graham, who kept trying to lure him to the Washington Post. He made pre-emptive strikes against in-house rivals. He lost only one major battle inside the Times--against Abe Rosenthal, executive editor in the 1980s, for control of the paper...
Dramatic, hauntingly glamorous and sometimes surreal, Wilson’s selections feature Lynes’ trademark dark foregrounds with subjects lit from just behind the head. In one classic image, dancer Martha Graham stands with her arms placed above her head in an angst-ridden pose. Another, of Tennessee Williams, shows the playwright gazing off to the right in a black sweater with torn sleeves...
...Graham, whose 12 years in Currier make him the longest-serving master in a single House among current masters, said he had been thinking about departing since he assumed the deanship, but he and his wife had told Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 they would try staying on. But yesterday Graham said the deanship’s demands on his time were simply too great...
...Barbara is equally committed in her ‘real-life’ job in a very full-time senior administrative post in the University Library,” Graham added...
Currier House Committee Chair Marc D. Manara ’04 said his favorite memories of William Graham were at House-wide events, such as masters’ open houses, when Graham would traditionally deliver brief remarks—a reminder to students, Manara said, “that he does enjoy our company and that he really is concerned about...