Word: neh
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...well was that seed money spent? Poorly, says Lynne Cheney, who headed the NEH when the grant was approved. She is the most prominent of conservative critics who charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including or excluding landmark events and persons are "politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected...
...neglected subject. Eight our of the museum's 24 exhibits were devoted to archaeology, and we also know that for over two years Dr. Carney Gavin, Nitza Rosovsky and other members of the staff worked first on a planning grant, which was awarded, then on an implementation grant from NEH to install a permanent archaeological exhibition on the top floor of the building. Even though that grant application did not materialize, it is simply not correct to say that archaeology was neglected...
...Friend of Hillary, departing president of an Ivy League university, a white Southerner accredited in the civil rights movement, a defender of Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird seat; now Hackney may be a sitting duck...
Hackney has other supporters. Among them is former rival and Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, who was passed over for the Penn presidency in favor of Hackney in 1980. Says he: "Sheldon Hackney has a judicious, moderate temperament -- and you need somebody who is an umpire" to run the NEH. Gregorian himself turned down the appointment...
Several important NEA and NEH grant recipients--including Joseph Papp of the New York Shakespeare Festival--already have announced their intentions to refuse grant money, totaling more than $300,000, until Congress changes the law. Rep. Pat Williams (D-Mont.) and Sen. Claiborne Pell (R-R.I.) have introduced legislation to free the NEA and NEH from constraint for at least five years...