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...those groups, the Ernest G. Stillman Forest Committee, founded by New York freelance writer George W.S. Trow '63, suggests that some $2 million remain with the forest. Trow said the group would consider taking action against the University if an amount of money substantially less than that were secured...
...have some responsibility in actuality and in metaphor for the preservation of silviculture. It seems highly unlikely that any work capable of sustaining the continuity of silviculture which interests us could go on without substantially more money than Harvard has offered," agreed Trow, head of the Stillman Forest Committee...
...according to Trow, maintenance of the forest for silviculture requires much more. "The Harvard figure is very low. The endowment stood at $1.2 million in 1950, and now it's only at $2.5 million [while the rest of Harvard's endowment has grown more than 800 percent]. It has not kept pace with the market, and it appears that Harvard has used some of that money for other purposes,' Trow said...
Despite his occasionally limiting editorializing, Trow does provide here a fine piece of the kind of journalism which shows how vapid some of the powerful and famous actually are. In a way, it is a fun spectacle. Phonies slither around and ooze grease so much that the essay borders on parody. The only celebrity to come out with any integrity is, interestingly, Keith Richards. Predictably frazzled at parties, Richards walks around suggesting ideas like an end to exorbitant concert ticket prices by having the oil companies pick up the tab. The oil companies have a lot of money, he reasons...
...Trow's second essay does succeed in getting the reader to shake his head in bewilderment. Yes, it is embarrassing if the height of the social season occurs when Bianca Jagger rides through a Studio 54 party on a white horse led a naked man and woman. And it is ludicrous when geriatric fashion priestess Diana Vreeland comments, "The thing about Bianca is the patrician quality." Trow puts together a good piece of debunking journalism. One only wishes he had not confined it in the thinking of his first essay, and let the sillinessof his subjects speak more for itself...