Word: strause
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalemate. This stalemate has gone on for far too long. It's time to bring it to an end. Peter Tufano, Erik J. Dahl, J. Wyatt Emmerich, Eric B. Fried, Gideon R. Gil, Stephen A. Herzenberg, Roger M. Klein, Mathew H. Lynch, Amy B. McIntosh, Francis H. Straus III and Michael E. Silver...
...award to Bate was not the only Pulitzer doled out to a Harvard professor, however. Alfred D. Chandler Jr. '40, Straus Professor of Business History, also walked off with a Pulitzer in history for his work, "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business...
Some Guggenheim descendants have fared better, of course. Peggy Guggenheim was the patron of modern artists like Jackson Pollock, and with relatively small funds she has lined the walls of her Venice palazzo with one of the world's greatest collections of modern art. Roger Straus Jr. runs one of the country's best publishing houses, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and Iris Love has won fame as an archaeologist. For the most part, however, the old Guggenheim daring has disappeared, and the family fortune, divided and divided again by succeeding generations, was made smaller still by nationalistic foreign governments...
...both Steinmetz and Straus point out that women are as prone as men to use violence on their mates. Whatever the result, most battered wives-and husbands-fight back. But about 600,000 husbands and 600,000 wives do not retaliate...
...likely to seem helpful. When the Virginia TV personality, now divorced, finally retaliated and knocked his wife unconscious with a single punch, he was ostracized as a wife beater, lost his TV show and was ordered by the court to stay away from his home for three months. Says Straus: "Some people figure it would be worse if they hit back. They need the good things the marriage has to offer and put up with the violence because they don't have much alternative." Others restrain themselves because they have been brought up never to strike a woman...