Word: nea
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...National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federally financed program, announced yesterday in Washington that it has awarded $22 million in "Challenge Grants"--money awarded only when the recipient garners triple the amount in new, private funds--to 50 artistic institutions across the country...
Fourteen years ago, as director of the Architecture and Environmental Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Lacy launched NEA's Federal Design Improvement Project. The late Nancy Hanks then chaired the NEA, and it took all of her considerable charm and political savvy plus Lacy's drive and enthusiasm to win over key Government officials. They included members of what seemed to be an uncomprehending General Services Administration, which is in charge of most federal buildings and furnishings. Good design, argued Lacy and Hanks, was not a frill but something that made economic sense...
Lacy and Hanks gradually won converts, including Presidents Nixon and Ford. Among the more conspicuous results of the continuing effort at NEA: two agencies, NASA and the Labor Department, now have a corporate identity with distinctive logotypes and uniform graphics; the U.S. Government occasionally holds design competitions for important civic works, a practice it generally has frowned on for almost two centuries. And, equally important, at the * instigation of the present NEA chairman, Frank Hodsoll, President Reagan elevated the prestige of the good-design movement in the Federal Government by establishing quadrennial presidential awards for design excellence...
...Haviaras has held many jobs. Born in the refugee village of Nea Kios, Greece, in 1935. Haviaras worked as a construction worker in his native land from the age of 12 for 20 years, publishing three books of Greek poetry during this time. Then, in 1967, he emigrated to Cambridge with his American wife, and found employment in the Order and Receipts section of Widener Library's basement offices...
...race to get on the right side of the educational fence has also been accelerated by pressure from teacher lobbying groups, especially the National Educational Association (NEA), which endorsed Mondale last fall. The NEA endorsement is more than a more stamp of approval for Mondale's platform: it carries with it the promise of campaign workers nationwide and a organization that rivals the AFL-CIO, another group that has backed the Minnesotan...