Word: lenzner
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...Terry Lenzner...
...wayin 1961 to bolster the Kennedy Administration,some members of the class who headed to Washingtonwere give direct responsibility for pioneering newfrontiers. College years spent on the footballfield and in the library, far away from any civilrights activism, were the end of "Eisenhower-eraapathy" for men like Terry F. Lenzner '61. Hisfirst job out of law school, with the JusticeDepartment, led him to Mississippi to investigatethe murders of three civil rights activists, whichhelped galvanize a growing national indignationabout abuses of Black civil rights. Lenzner wenton to head the national legal service program forthe poor, worked on the special Senate committeeinvestigating...
...Lenzner says his career proved to him theefficacy of working within the system to effectchange. Although half of the president's cabinetat one point said that programs they headed hadbeen sued by Lenzner's legal aid service on behalfof poor clients, the service was made independentand continues today. "I retain a strong confidencein the system," says Lenzner. But attendingcollege in a period of pro-administrationquiescence "might not have been helpful" for hiscareer, he adds...
...civil rights problem was alien to me,"Lenzner says. "If I had been exposed to theproblem and had more time to think about how toresolve it, I might have been more effective thanI...
Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their...