Word: kirstein
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...Lincoln Kirstein's career as a cultural impresario began early, grounded in two attributes rarely found together in the same person: good taste and money. The latter came from his indulgent father, a partner in a Boston department store, and it enabled Kirstein, during his freshman year at Harvard in 1926, to found Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly that ran seven years, published original work by the likes of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and lost approximately $8,000 an issue. Somewhat less expensively, Kirstein also began the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, an organization that provided much...
Those were heady accomplishments for someone in his early 20s, but Kirstein's greatest coup lay a few years ahead, in 1933, when he persuaded choreographer George Balanchine to come to America. The brilliant Russian emigre and the well-heeled native son built up what became the New York City Ballet, in its prime the most influential dance company on earth...
Once McArthur has studied a problem comprehensively and defined a solution, it's not easy to persuade him from his stand, says Kirstein Professor of Human Relations Jay W. Lorsch, chair of the Executive Education Programs...
...course of her research, Dreifus discovered just how extraordinary the members of the Society were. She says, "Lincoln Kirstein, who was one of the original founders, would write on the...catalogs that they produced for each exhibition--he would write these very bold and brash statements [saying] modern art today means this and that. These were all very bold things for an undergraduate to be doing, but for [the society]--it was just in them to do it. It's not something many people do today...
...recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent. It's difficult to adjust. "We encourage them to be an honored guest in the home for a while rather than come charging in to take over," says Marine Chaplain J.S. Kirstein, who oversees a homecoming-counseling program at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point...