Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michelangelo at the Morgan...
...museum has ever been able to muster even half a dozen for a show. Thus Manhattan's Morgan Library scored something of a coup when it persuaded the British Museum to send 41 Michelangelo drawings for an extended show...
...believes that they should use their leverage to encourage reforms. Student demonstrators and sympathetic trustees, though, see the issue as moral rather than practical or monetary. When Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility recently recommended that the college sell $900,000 of stock in the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (which lends money to the South African government), the committee's statement put the case with remarkable candor: "We recognize that divestiture is of little practical consequence and hence is almost entirely symbolic. Still, symbols and gestures are important in the realm of moral and humane concerns...
...Morgan's response was "neutral," Cabot said, adding that the company said it simply disagreed with Harvard's actions and felt whatever the University did was "its own affair...
Cabot said Morgan may have reacted more strongly to Yale's decision because "having been twice burned, they were annoyed...