Word: nelson
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...more explicit. The change has a great deal to do with the state of America, and a great deal to do with the state of the family; it's a mark of the family's uniqueness that for the younger generation, the two are so deeply entwined. "My father," Nelson's daughter says, "well, I love him for his warmth. But he stands for power, and I think it's important how one relates to power. It stands as a warning." The striking thing about the Rockefellers is that it took them a century to reach that conclusion...
Bonding as powerful as this, Collier and Horowitz imply, is bound to start working against itself at some point, to become a destructive force. That's something that happens in a lot of families, but in the case of the Rockefellers, particularly the third generation of David, Nelson and their three brothers, the working out of family relations has had a subtle, important effect on America and the world. The third generation and its children form the center of the book, and through their stories Collier and Horowitz make a case for a slow decline in the family dynasty. David...
...later as a flop. The status, of course, has always been there, and is easy to portray; this is without question the richest and most powerful family America has ever seen, and the reach of its money and influence is staggering. The failures, however, are a little forced. Nelson got divorced and remarried, something common enough in America, but Collier and Horowitz build that up into a life-destroying crisis. Their billing of David as a failure has to do with the Chase Manhattan Bank losing a little gound to its chief rival. Even Winthrop, the most convincingly unsuccessful...
...Collier and Horowitz leave the way open for someone else to do a book on what the Rockefellers did to everyone else, rather than just themselves. Still, the very incidental way in which world events are portrayed--the virtual colonization of Venezuela, say, as a good maturing experience for Nelson--is a testament to the family's power...
...Rosenthal's firing took on a new dimension when The Boston Globe reported on March 5, 1976 that Boston State College campus police had engaged in "widespread political surveillance of suspected activist students and teachers." Rosenthal said last week he believes photographs taken of CAR members at the Avi Nelson incident on April 15 1975 were the evidence Morrissey had claimed to possess at the meeting of the Special Committee on Tenure...