Word: hugh
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...issue on which the Corporation has spent perhaps the most time in the last 12 years is that of investor responsibility. Through the four-member Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), chaired by retiring 16-year Corporation veteran Hugh Calkins '45, the board has grappled with the issue of how to handle investments in companies which do some business in South Africa...
Louise G. Clubb, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, was appointed to the post last week by President Bok. She will replace Professor of Fine Arts Craig Hugh Smyth, who is retiring...
...families pop into each other's houses, exchange presents, share holidays. So long as they accept each other at face value, the relationship works. But when they stop to examine what they really know about each other, they uneasily sense that their affection could be based on what Playwright Hugh Whitemore calls a Pack of Lies...
...horizon without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years, along with the deference of a talented man writing below his worth...
...Lance Morrow knows it. So he amplifies his theme with shrewd and tough-minded investigations of the nature of American power and of the collisions of class and generations. The Chief is an ambiguous title: it signifies an Indian- hunting ancestor and the man he pursued; it is also Hugh Morrow and his employer. And it is every father and the next generation. At the finale, the author asks his two-year-old son Justin, "What's new?" The child replies "with perfect accuracy, for him, 'Everything!' " Irony does not intrude. There are other differences between Lance and Justin...