Word: moynihan
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This year may be a critical one for the future of the Center. The arrival of Daniel Patrick Moynihan as the new director of the Center coincided with a new, long-term grant from the Ford Foundation. A year ago, the was some doubt that Ford would continue its support, and James Q. Wilson, then the Director, was forced to reduce the Center's activities in anticipation of a possible financial squeeze. Now that Ford has agreed to maintain its annual contribution of $200,000 for the next seven years, the Center is engaged in rebuilding its programs. The allocation...
...Federal Bulldozer, Martin Anderson's vehement critique of the urban renewal program, outraged bureaucrats all over the nation, Many of those affiliated with the Center admit privately that they "got a little burned on that one" and suggest that more careful editing might have avoided the heat. But Moynihan stands firmly behind the book: "Anderson's heresy," he argues, "has become today's orthodoxy." It is probably no coincidence, however, that after the Bulldozer controversy, the Center's publications began to announce that "The findings and conclusions of this book are, as with all Joint Center publications, solely the responsibility...
...critical analysis has already provoked matters of anger from local politicians and officials, and the author frankly admits that the publication would probably "set off a minor furor." The issue is particularly sensitive because the Ford Foundation both helps the Joint Center and is also involved with ABCD. Moynihan insists, however, that both his and Harvard University Press's hesitation in publishing the manuscript is due not to fear of hostile reaction, but rather doubts that a work of such limited scope is appropriate for publication in book form...
...Moynihan praised Boston's citizens for their "sense of love for the city." But he deplored the "compartmentalization of the arts, the elitist culture that exists here...
People of all classes must mingle, Moynihan said, in a "community culture." And a necessary first step for providing that culture is the creation of proper facilities for the arts. For example, he said, Boston should build an opera house...