Word: metropolitanism
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...taste in politicians. He has recently been host at breakfasts for Representative Charles Rangel, a liberal Democrat from Harlem, and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the conservative preacher and presidential candidate. Says Richard Ravitch, chairman of New York City's Bowery Savings Bank and former head of New York's metropolitan transportation authority: "Most people who seek the White House seek his advice and ultimately his support." Tisch was instrumental in helping preserve the deductibility of state and local income taxes in the new tax-reform bill...
...Tisch brothers are generous donors to several charities. They have given more than $10 million to New York University, where Larry Tisch is chairman of the board of trustees. He is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I feel I must give back," says Tisch. He and his brother are active patrons of and participants in various Jewish organizations, including the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the United Jewish Appeal. The family is religious: once a week a Talmudic scholar comes to Tisch's office, where he and two of his sons...
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy mating dance called Summer, the sellout audience at the Metropolitan Opera House was routed by a cloud of noxious gas that emptied the 4,000-seat auditorium and forced cancellation of the performance. (The radical Jewish Defense League at first claimed and then denied responsibility.) Next evening, amid beefed-up security, the show went off without a hitch...
Many at the Fogg yesterday afternoon, though, thought the Metropolitan District Commission went a little overboard when a contingent of 48 goose-stepping coppers made its presence known on Quincy Street...
Following plans first laid over a year ago, hundreds of Cambridge, Harvard, Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), Boston and state police will be present throughout the celebrations, Stephenson said...