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...Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells (Italian literature), but younger teachers like Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and George Santayana. (They had a sense of their own value too. Said Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge, after falling off his dais: "At last, I find myself on the level of my audience...
...their income, according to a 1985 Yankelovich poll. That may be because they have not yet reached their full earning capacity and have less disposable income than their elders. Still, baby boomers seem less willing to give than their parents--"a downward trend that bears serious watching," says Richard Lyman, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "It would be a tragedy if it is an early sign that philanthropy in this country is losing some of its force...
...settlements, and, by herding together, establish their language and manners, to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them?" Some 80 years later, Boston Mayor Theodore Lyman called the Irish "a race that will never be infused into our own, but on the contrary will always remain distinct and hostile." The Eastern European Jews who fled the pogroms were an embarrassment to the cultivated German Jewish establishment in the U.S. Some of today's immigrations stir hatreds...
...decision to streamline ITT was a long time coming, partly because Geneen was a long time going. He turned 65 in 1975 but was reluctant to retire. Staying on as chairman, he installed an heir apparent, Lyman Hamilton, as % chief executive officer in 1978. But after Hamilton started planning a big reorganization, Geneen sacked...
...rendered inoffensive. These changes now seem fatuous, but they did not accomplish what Menikoff asserts: "A finished and artistically sophisticated novel was reduced to a vulgar and meretricious shadow of itself." Henry James read this supposedly mutilated text and praised "an art brought to a perfection." Critic George Lyman Kittredge went further, calling the work as published "almost as good a story as ever was written...