Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Dan Morgan '71, a member of Q-House, heard of the plans, his only response was. "Kirby Wilcox is too much." This general feeling seems to pervade the House. One observant student said, "Kirby is the finest, most conscientious, most brilliant student I've ever seen." Such talk embarrasses Wilcox, a shy lacrosse star from Shelter Island...
That intelligence can seldom shine through the film. Director Karel Reisz (Morgan!) has found an appropriately Proustian mode in which to tell the story, pouring time forward and then reversing it, like the sand in an hour glass. But he places Isadora, the first natural dancer, on a background of numbing artificiality and casts her opposite a series of unconvincing poseurs and popinjays. The baroque scenario -radically cut from 170 to 131 minutes -is florid without being literate, essentially true to the events, but essentially false to the tragicomic character who made them happen...
Except for one guarded entrance at each building, all doors to Baker Library, the computer center, and Morgan Hall, the Business school's equivalent to University Hall, were sealed...
...guiding philosophy of loophole users has been that of the late Justice Learned Hand: "There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Financier J. P. Morgan put it more bluntly: "If Congress insists on making stupid mistakes and passing foolish tax laws, millionaires should not be condemned if they take advantage of them...
Reluctant Step. One reason the rate increase caused so little commotion was that it had been anticipated in banking circles for weeks; the only question was which bank would start it. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. took the reluctant first step. The bank is, after all, well attuned to credit pressures. A leading corporate lender, it was one of the banks most severely squeezed in the "credit crunch" of 1966. This time, the Federal Reserve Board's policy of gradual "disinflation without deflation" has kept U.S. banks at some distance from anything like the 1966 crisis...