Word: robinsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the speeches, Chris G. Robinson '77 recalled a history of building and expansion during which "Harvard has never been terribly good to the community...
...should not want to make a profit at the expense of the community it lives in. Other non-profits limit their profit-margin...Harvard should be doing the same," said Robinson, a Cambridge resident...
...occasional cheer went up as the winners were read out. People whose number came up early got first crack at signing a contract with one of the approved builders and choosing a house style: Classical, Victorian, Colonial Revival, Coastal, Mediterranean or French. (Alas, nothing resembling the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.) The first 350 units are scheduled to be occupied by June 1996, but it will take several years for Celebration to reach its full size of 8,000 homesites and a population of 15,000 to 20,000. Sources at Disney estimate that the company will spend $100 million...
According to Richard Robinson, benefits-services director of the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association, Winsick's special status as an ex-POW obligates the VA to get him the treatment he needs by contracting with a private provider if necessary. "We run into this type of wrongful, dollar-driven disallowance all the time," says Robinson. "They're trying to cut corners. The name of the game is to try to save money and to hell with the veteran...
This deployment of objects also gives Harvard greater authorship over the exhibits than one would normally find in public museums. Often this approach alienates the public, but that need not be the case with intelligent work, suggests Curator of Drawings William Robinson. On the contrary, the most perfect exhibit ever at the Fogg, he says, was a collection of landscapes by Dutch master Jacob van Ruisdael that was shown in 1982. "Director Seymour Slive successfully combined a major artist's unfamiliar, though brilliant, work with exemplary scholarship, and 2,500 people came on a single afternoon...