Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mosteller, who has published more than 250 articles and books, has received honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He also helped prepare the landmark Kinsey report on human sexuality in the 1950s, and the Coleman report on educational opportunity in the 1960s...
...said that he considered it a "major mistake" that organizations like the Mellon Foundation did not class Asian-Americans as a minority group...
...decision by the Andrew M. Mellon Foundationto exclude Asian students from an affirmativeaction fellowship program will be discussedtomorrow in a workshop on the minority status ofAsian-Americans...
According to Paul, "Glazer sees affirmativeaction as a regressive policy that actually limitsthe ability of minorities to achieve parity withthe mainstream. This will be a stimulatingdebate--especially since Harvard Collegeofficially recognizes Asian-Americans asminorities and yet the Mellon Fellowship islimited to Blacks, Native Americans andHispanics...
...renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where we can no longer expect to match the standards of just a few years ago." To Paul Mellon, long the Maecenas of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "everything important is ridiculously expensive . . . I just refuse to pay these absurd prices." And as the museum's buying power fades, public experience of art is impoverished, and the brain drain of gifted young people from curatorship into art dealing accelerates...