Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of a set of three short plays in which Coward starred in London in 1966. The curtain-raiser, Come into the Garden, Maud, is a fast five-finger exercise about a middle-aged American millionaire in Europe and his vile, blue-haired wife, whose hobby is collecting titled Europeans. With a witty tenderness, Coward has the amiable golfing millionaire, clad in Hush Puppies and a loud sport jacket, fall in love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being...
Probably the most talkative so far has been Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney and a major campaign fund raiser. Also flirting with a deal was John Ehrlichman, formerly one of the President's closest aides. Says a White House colleague of Ehrlichman's: "John knows that if he fights for months in the court and then draws a heavy sentence, he just sinks further into debt and postpones the day when he can again support his family...
...hand up Richard Nixon than Teddy Kennedy would have handed up Bobby Kennedy, or vice versa. The loyalty is that deep." Also among the likely targets of the grand jury are L. Patrick Gray, the former acting director of the FBI; Maurice Stans, Nixon's highly successful fund raiser and former Secretary of Commerce; and Charles Colson, easily the investigator's most tantalizingly elusive suspect. He sent Jaworski a 40-page memo explaining why he should not be indicted...
Then in 1967 the Academy appointed a 37-year-old former dancer and fund raiser named Harvey Lichtenstein as its new executive director. Lichtenstein turned out to be one of the best things to happen to Brooklyn since the Dodgers won the World Series. Armed with a $300,000 Ford Foundation grant to stimulate modern dance, Lichtenstein concentrated in his first three years on lining up topflight contemporary dance groups who could not afford Manhattan production prices. He organized regular appearances by more than a dozen companies, including the American Ballet Theater, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Martha Graham, Alwin...
Brooklyn born, raised and educated (Brooklyn College), Lichtenstein studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, then danced with the New York City Opera and the Dance Drama Company. He quit to spend three years as a fund raiser for Brandeis University. This was followed by a Ford Foundation fellowship on which he activated the subscription program of the New York City Ballet, an accomplishment that brought him to the attention of the Academy's board of directors...