Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhibition's view of New England is not particularly reminiscent of the New England we have come to know through the eyes of such visonaries as Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth or John Singer Sargent--nor through the commercial goo oozed out by company calendars or your local chamber of commerce. The DeCordova's view is new and refreshing. You will look in vain for the Vermont covered bridge, the red barns, weathered clabbard and punctuating steeple, the gulls on the wing and boats at dock (probably Rockport). You will even have to search for the Maine lobsterman, the Vermont farmer...
...series of meetings next day, some 25 new possibilities were suggested, including three blacks and several women. The list was pared to Lawrence O'Brien, Sargent Shriver, Kevin White, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale and Missouri Senator Tom Eagleton. McGovern was looking for a man who had identification with urban affairs, ability, the stature to assume the presidency, and a national rather than a regional appeal. Catholicism was understood to be helpful, if not vital...
...much of its 34-year history, the Nieman Foundation program for journalists at Harvard has carried high prestige. Nieman fellowships offered newsmen an academic year of leisured study and exposure to prominent people with provocative viewpoints. More recently, however, some Nieman fellows have been critical of Dwight Sargent, 55, a former editorial-page editor for the old New York Herald Tribune, who has been the Nieman curator since 1964. Under Sargent, it is said, the program has lacked the verve it had under the 25-year leadership of Louis Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September...
...Sargent and Taylor then organized the Associates of the Nieman Foundation, which provides an annual assembly for editors and publishers to exchange views on contemporary issues with distinguished scholars of Harvard...
President Bok, in accepting Sargent's resignation, said, "Through your efforts, the Nieman program is on a sound footing and enjoys wide support throughout the publishing industry. You should take great pride in this accomplishment...