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...first bewilderment and loneliness mark immigrant women's lives. "You often see Hispanic men sitting in a bar at night or playing dominoes outside. Women don't have that," says Gail Lerner, an administrative officer for the World Council of Churches. "Isolation is great. The extended family, the neighbors they depended on in their home country are gone. I'm not talking about kaffeeklatsches, but physical and moral support." Immigrant women also suffer the frustration of being regarded at home as fringe contributors, when in reality their wages are almost always essential to the family's survival. Some immigrant women...
Gigi reminds us theatregoers have yet to match the security of the wine connoiseur at a Paris cafe. This production of Gigi comes with the same winning label that made a delightful book for Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
White did not take all of this lying down. He objected strongly to those writers who sought to control opinion. Working on a World War Two government pamphlet with Reinhold Niebuhr, Max Lerner, and Malcolm Cowley, White wrote...
...that I was being taught by many men whom I considered to be clods." Luminaries like then-Senator John F. Kennedy '40, then-Secretary of State Neil H. McElroy '25, Robert Frost, who attended Harvard from 1897 to 1879. Leonard Bernstein '37, John P. Marquand '15, and Alan Jay Lerner '40 appeared on the show, giving the distinct impression that if you go to Harvard, you're sure...
...Borman that it is an inevitable, perhaps even healthy, aspect of capitalism. Like a forest fire that creates more productive land by burning off dead trees and scrub, the failure of one company often yields markets, capital and skilled labor that fuel the growth of another. Says Eugene Lerner, professor of finance at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "For a long time, thanks to inflation, a lot of firms found it convenient to borrow a lot more than was prudent. If inflation had continued, these same guys would have been millionaires. But someone always gets...