Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesday 6--In a major fundraising coup, Kennedy School Dean Graham Allison secures a pledge of $2.5 million from New York philanthropist J. Rodney Peeter. The money is slated to fund a new mid-career program for middle-aged, unemployed political scientists. In a statement released today, President Derek C. Bok announces that Peeter's gift was conditioned on his being offered a University post commensurate with the size of the unprecedented donation and that Peeter would replace Allison as K-School dean effective immediately...
Pablo Escobar Gaviria, generally acknowledged to be head of the Mafia, as the cartel is known locally, became something of a local philanthropist, building a zoo, soccer fields and an entire suburb of low-cost houses that is still called Barrio Escobar. In the manner of feudal serfs, residents in Barrio Escobar refer to their benefactor with cap-doffing deference and slip the Spanish honorific Don in front of his name...
...affable, gregarious; Lloyd Webber slender, introspective, subdued. Rice's lyrics were hard-edged and cynical; Lloyd Webber's music lush and tuneful ("Tim can never write 'I love you,' " says Lloyd Webber. "It's always 'I love you, but . . .' "). Their first show, The Likes of Us, about a Victorian philanthropist named Dr. Bernardo, was never commercially produced; "square and dated," explained Rice. For their next try they took some really dated material: the Old Testament...
...path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead or wishing they were. A novel of letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. The R.S.C. staging, which won the 1986 Olivier award for best play, the West End's equivalent of the Tony, has been imported intact. Last week it set Broadway ablaze...
Gorbachev is the ablest of the Soviet leaders I've met. He's charismatic, eloquent and highly intelligent. If he were a candidate in our elections, he'd be a surefire winner. He's even interested in reforms. But he's not a philanthropist. So why is he accepting the zero option? Why is he willing to give up more intermediate-range warheads than we would have to give...