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Translated by Ralph Manheim; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 89 pages...
...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...
...male dorms are a more intense experience," Duffy adds. "For guys, it makes things more normal to have women around and it diffuses the pressure. My freshman year, Straus people weren't inhibited from running naked through the halls during a water fight. The Straus Rape and Pillage Society, a group made up of Straus freshmen who are notorious for 'boisterous activities,' is a group whose very nature is contrary to code living," says Duffy...
...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...