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Caught between some of Chicago's most colorful denizens and some of philosophy's most challenging questions, Citrine often seems as if he were becoming a hybrid of two other famous home-town boys: Robert Hutchins and Nelson Algren. His real confusion, however, grows out of a bad...
For the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, no subject has been too cosmic, no issue too complex. In the past 16 years, the center has boldly sought to "clarify the basic issues and widen the circle of discussion about them." An offshoot of the Fund for the Republic...
Ford Money. Much of the blame for the center's current plight lies with Hutchins, who firmly believes in sparing no expense in the pursuit of knowledge. Despite initial backing of $4 million, supplied by the Ford Foundation from money originally granted to the Fund for the Republic, and...
Last June, Hutchins hired Malcolm Moos, formerly president of the University of Minnesota, and installed him as president in the hope that he could raise funds to restore the center to solvency. Hutchins, now 76, ostensibly retired to a cottage on the estate as a salaried "life fellow," but retained...
But for Moos' critics at the center, these efforts were not enough. Says Harry Ashmore, former editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hutchins' chief operating officer: "When Moos was elected we were in no worse financial condition than we always had been. If we're...