Word: habits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best foundations are acutely conscious of their public image and obligations, and sensitive to the need for periodic introspection if they are to preserve their function as the implement of vital change. Philanthropic institutions can degenerate into bureaucracies, stiff with habit and overloaded with deadwood; it is difficult, for instance, to fire a philanthropist for backing a poor horse. Soon after taking over the presidency of the Ford Foundation in 1966, McGeorge Bundy declared his conviction that periodic personnel turnover at the disbursement level was probably a good foundation practice...
...abroad, foundations must be constantly alert to the complexities of the world and of their own responsibilities to all society. Their very charters, as the New World Foundation's Vernon Eagle has observed, mandate them as "agents for social change." Policies cannot become ruts; the habit of geese flocking, or doing what the other foundation does and supporting popular institutions and causes, must be sturdily resisted. "Foundations should stay out in the forefront of humanity," says Rockefeller President J. George Harrar. "Our major contribution is to make ourselves no longer necessary...
...even while creating some problems for the industry. Sadler also conceived airline credit and the cut-rate fare for military personnel. Many an airline traveler is losing a friend he never knew he had. Along with collecting coins and studying Latin, onetime Schoolteacher Sadler's weekend habit was to fly to American cities, listen to complaints-and try to correct the problems...
...shocking two point victory over the Quakers--who beat Harvard by 13 points--was Dartmouth's first win of the season; they have lost nine. Unless Harvard curbs, its sad habit of throwing away ballgames, it is quite likely that Dartmouth will score its second victory tonight...
...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...