Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Indians sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch for $24-worth of beads in the late 1600s, they got what might be called a bad deal...
...Tail Gunner" McCarthy nicknamed Harvard the "Kremlin on the Charles," but once all the midwestern farmboys arrive in Cambridge, they soon find out Harvard will train them for the Chase Manhattan Bank and not a revolutionary cadre. It is only natural that Harvard's faculty mirrors this bias. The radical graduate students and assistant professors soon leave for greener, tenured pastures--just take a look at the Cambridge refugees at the U Mass Economics Department...
...Should We Expect External Darkness and Infinite Expansion." Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, runs the Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory. Besides being a professor at MIT, and a noted astronomer, Morrison used to hold the patent for the nuclear bomb--honest, he worked on the Manhattan Project. They are speaking at the Cambridge Forum, 3 Church...
...playwrights and actors have also looked to him for inspiration. John Guare and Mel Shapiro found that the Two Gentlemen of Verona were still around in 1971, only they happened to be a black and Puerto Rican, just as West Side Story had flushed Romeo and Juliet out of Manhattan slums a decade earlier. Shakespeare's influence barely surfaces until the end of West Side Story, when it takes the form of a tragic denoument that is a cloying mistake. But Guare and Shapiro's adaptation gamely borrows both language and plot from its original with no harm done...
Died. Harold Hoskins, 81, businessman and former director of the State Department's Foreign Service Institute; in Manhattan. Between his years of service in both world wars, Hoskins became a vice president of Cannon Mills. At the end of World War II he held several diplomatic posts in the Middle East before assuming direction of the institute that oversees the training of foreign service personnel...