Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While President Conant was less than gung-ho about the idea of a university theatre, his predecessor, A. Lawrence Lowell, had actively opposed one, going so far as to refuse unsolicited offers of money for the purpose of establishing a drama school. Conant's successor, Nathan Pusey, felt differently. Early in '54 he announced his support for a drive to finance construction of a theatre, and when John L. Loeb '24 donated a flat million to the cause, its realization became a certainty...
...Nathan Pusey's first speech as president of Harvard in 1953 was a call to revitalize the Harvard Divinity School, an institution that seemed to be dying in the face of secular criticism. Last week Pusey returned to the school for a convocation speech on its 150th anniversary at a time when the quality of its students and faculty has never been higher. Yet, Pusey noted sadly, "the world of unbelief is all about us," and doubts about the school's role seem to be rising with "increased poignancy, in new and awful forms...
...Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were used to check whether there was a man illegally living in the house. And he began a campaign to replace the humiliating income-checking procedure with...
...most of their present powers. It obviously takes more than one man to run a city as vast, diverse and complicated as Los Angeles. The qualities that give Los Angeles its vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like to duplicate the providential medley of sea, sun and sky, the combination of cultural and recreational advantages, the chance to seize opportunity in a mobile and open society...
...suppose," says Nathan Cummings, "that there isn't a week that goes by that I don't look at somebody's business." Cummings, who will turn 70 this fall, is a Canada-born, Chicago-based connoisseur of fine art and fine companies. His Consolidated Foods Corp. (TIME, June 24) has made corporate acquisitions and become a food-industry behemoth, with sales last fiscal year of $830 million. Last week Cummings announced the result of his latest look into somebody else's business. Consolidated agreed on a merger in which, for $140 million in stock, it will...