Word: perkins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berg for example, is clearly ascinated by Perkin's odd relations with women--describing in detail his platonic ove for Elizabeth Lemmon, his stromy marriage, and his fights with Zelda Fitzgerald and Aline Berstein. Thomas Wolfe's lover--but does not attempt to find in them some secret to Perkins' great eye for fine writers. Rather, Berg simply presents his information about Maxwell Perkins the man, and then moves on to describe his relations with his authors and the conservative elite at Charles Scribners Sons...
Though he seems thoroughly at ease, Art doesn't quite know his way around the labyrinth of Perkin yet; he keeps looking through offices as he passes them, trying to orient himself with a glimpse of the outside world through the plate glass windows. Momentarily startled from their contemplation or industry, the inhabitants of the cells look up and smile...
...February about 200 astrophysicists and staff personnel from Harvard and the Smithsonian Institution will start moving out of leased North Cambridge offices into the Richard S. Perkin Laboratory...
...Perkin Lab is a $4.6 million-dollar pre-cast concrete addition to the Harvard College Observatory...
...Cornell Board of Trustees surveyed students over the summer about possible choices for president. In September it selected Cornell Provost Dale R. Corson as Perkin's successor...