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Sister Doris Gormley is director of corporate social responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. This spring, after receiving a proxy statement from a large Silicon Valley corporation called Cypress Semiconductor, she sent back a courteous, three-paragraph form letter explaining her order's belief that corporations should...
Sister Doris reacted calmly, remarking to the Wall Street Journal that her letter may have arrived when Rodgers was "feeling extremely vulnerable around these issues." One reason little American boys are raised to be particularly polite to nuns is that nuns have a reputation for being able to put you...
Apparently, Rodgers was not simply throwing a snit at the end of a bad day. He is known as a ceo who treasures a reputation for outspokenness. His letter, which argues that virtually all people who are qualified to be directors of a major high-tech company happen to be...
Together--and often working with the brilliant arranging skills of Nelson Riddle--Fitzgerald and Granz then went on to songbooks for the likes of Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, the great composers of the great...
In their soaring melodies and plummy platitudes, R.&H. songs are secular hymns--liturgical music for the American mid-century. Sometimes, as in State Fair (originally written for Hollywood, now on view in a tatty theatrical version notable only as a showcase for Broadway's snazziest dancer, Scott Wise), the...