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...college has already raised more than $1.2 million for the project, said Radcliffe spokesman Aida K. Press. The $1.2 million includes a $750,000 check sent by the Pew Memorial Trust in September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger Library Given Half-Million | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...next semester, however, the novelty had worn off, and students were using the Macs for everything from planning diets to balancing equations. But it was the school's effective use of a $2.8 million grant from the Pew Memorial Trust for faculty computer training that really made the difference. "We knew that if anything was going to make this program succeed, it would be the Drexel faculty," says Bernard Sagik, vice president for academic affairs. His innovative solution: invite teachers to become their own software developers. Faculty members with good ideas for educational computer programs were paired off with crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Machine on Every Desk | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...grant given by the Pew Memorial Trust starts the drive to raise the $3.4 million needed to cover the cost of the expansion, said library director Patricia King '59. The Philadelphia based trust has also donated money for the renovation of other Harvard libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Awarded Funds | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...tiny yellow bird and, to be sure, the world's most "wascally wabbit" will invade MOMA for a four-month tribute to the Warner Bros. cartoon shop, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. But that's not all, folks. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester J. Pussycat, Tweety Pie, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Merrie menagerie will be starring in nine sublimely lunatic hourlong cassettes--the Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection--issued next month by Warner Home Video. And this season CBS will air a special to be produced by Saturday Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...bird, rabbit- humiliate-duck world, character is at the base of the comedy. Each nuance of eyebrow makes Bugs' almost inhuman sangfroid seem more endearing; each microsecond of exasperated deadpan underlines Daffy's status as Hollywood's least placable loser; every syllable of Sylvester's lisp or Pepe Le Pew's fetid French intensifies the viewer's ability to believe that these creatures are not only personalities but gifted movie stars. Bugs, even when dolled up in drag (a spectacle that always drives Elmer to embarrassments of lust), is Cagney plus Groucho. Pepe is a Charles Boyer with negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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