Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Michael S. Dukakis, in an address at the Loeb Drama Center on Friday, told the Metropolitan Cultural Alliance that he had to cut the allocation for the alliance programs to $40,000 in the budget he submitted to the state legislature last week...
...Metropolitan Cultural Alliance conducts management workshops and provides information services for over 100 cultural institutions in the Boston area, including the Loeb Drama Center and the University Film Center...
...limiting his book to a personality study of Loeb, he ignores the larger issues Loeb's power raises. In examining the roots of that power, it is not enough to explain that the Union Leader is the state's largest newspaper--if Loeb's polemics were completely out of tune with his New Hampshire readership, a rival newspaper might well have emerged. If there are economic factors which give the Union Leader a permanent corner on the market, what are they...
...conjuring up artificial scapegoats, on the consciousness of the state's citizens, is of course the underlying problem. All people perceive their lives through the terms they are given and for the people who are born, and will live and die in New Hampshire, the daily presence of the Loeb papers is a major factor in how they understand the issues of the day, and how they come to terms with the forces that control their lives. Even those who profess violent disagreement with Union Leader politics cannot help but be co-opted by Loeb's frame of reference...
...result, Who the Hell is William Loeb? is valuable only on a utilitarian plane. While it may temporarily shake Loeb's hegemony, Cash's readers will not be enlightened as to the role played by Loeb--and other Loebs around the country--in stimulating political confusion, in disguising real roots of discontent, and in thereby enforcing the dominance of the prevailing system...