Word: peretz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine, I'm interested." Last week, after guiding NR through one-third of its intellectually rich and financially lean six decades, Harrison returned the friend's interest by placing NR's future in his hands. The new owner and editorial chairman: Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz, 34, advocate of leftish causes and angel of liberal Democratic candidates (Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern...
...independently wealthy Peretz, whose wife Anne has Singer Co. holdings, becomes NR's third owner since its founding in 1914. Since that time, NR has built an enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...
Several professors have objected to the proposal. Martin H. Peretz, master of South House, called the program "squeemish" and said that it was "less than desirable." Peretz, said he had hoped the seminar program would allow intellectuals not connected with Harvard to give one-term House courses. This is not possible under Kiely's proposal...
House course expenses now run as high as $3500 for one full-year course, Sarah F. Klos, an English tutor in Adams House said yesterday. A ceiling expenditure limit of $5000 would cause House masters to "hustle other funds," Peretz said...
...points they were trying to make is that Americans, especially those of liberal or radical persuasion, feel that Israel has become a Sparta, a garrison state. If there is anywhere that is less like that it is Israel," Peretz said...