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With a planning-grant from the Ford Foundation, Horner added para-professional training--as a safeguard for women who could might go jobless in an economic crunch--to the institute's programs. She said in January, "I'm becoming an economic pessimist. I worry that in a no-growth economy we are encouraging women into positions that won't be there. The recession could backfire on women, and we must be prepared for that. The worst thing that could happen is that women who have trained for a career will come out of school only to bump their heads against...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Exactly Does A Radcliffe President Do? | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...anger and frustration that has built up in Rudolf Vrba during the last 30 years has left its mark. Vrba has made a conscious effort to keep himself totally unaffiliated: he is anti-Zionist, anti-communist, and even somewhat anti-Semitic, particularly with respect to American Jews. A pessimist by virtue of experience, he terms Israel "a potential Auschwitz," speaks of "Zionist megalomaniacs," and says that nothing is more repugnant to him than middle class American Jews demonstrating for Soviet Jewry. ("Let them go to Israel themselves, not send Russian Jews to fight there...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: A Survivor of the Holocaust | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...becoming an economic pessimist," Horner said. "I worry that in a no-growth economy we are encouraging women into positions that won't be there. The history of women in and out of the work force indicates that people's social consciousness diminishes when the economy gets tight. The recession could backfire on women, and we must be prepared for that...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: The Radcliffe Institute: Out of the Ivory Tower And Into the Streets | 1/23/1974 | See Source »

...dutiful pessimist, O'Neill damned New York as a Sodom and Gomorrah of the arts. But his labors for the New York stage brought him four Pulitzers and a Nobel Prize (in 1936-for Mourning Becomes Electro, O'Neill thought). Strange Interlude netted O'Neill, who was not immune to the charms of money, about $275,000. He inhabited at least three artist's dream palaces, including a 35-room chateau at Le Plessis near Tours. In his closet O'Neill had 75 pairs of shoes; in his drive, a Bugatti roadster. What more could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Disasters | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...Sometime next year, those Red Line subway cars will move out for the last time, and instead of screeching wheels at 1:20 in the morning, jackhammers at 7 a.m will awaken Eliot House residents. And in a few years -- three to the optimist, five or more to the pessimist -- the scenery should be a little better, when the John F. Kennedy Library graces the Charles River's banks...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: The Library Comes to Town | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

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