Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plotter Franklin Roosevelt, tempered in the Senate's school of the deal, and ultimately a man who believed that there were no accidents in politics, only conspiracies. He armored himself with intimate knowledge of those he believed conspired against him, which was almost everybody. "I don't trust anybody but Lady Bird," he once said, "and sometimes I'm not sure about...
...Springfield, Mass. Like several other such theaters, Stage/West tries to make room in its repertory season for new and serious drama. In recent years, some of these plays have reached New York and won critical acclaim. What is of more importance is the increasing willingness of regional theaters to trust in the receptivity of their local audiences to new works rather than continually playing it safe with revivals of classics or Broadway hits...
...most city businessmen and political leaders today believe that p.r. just accentuates the fragmentation, making it easier to see. Cambridge Trust President Gardner Bradlee holds that the whole political base is simply too fragmented to get anything done. "There are 25 different points of view on each issue, and they all want to be represented," he says. "It's very difficult to get a consensus and there is no one today capable of forming a coalition...
Different businesses are what Harvard Trust President Ernie Stockwell sees as being the problem. He says the moving out of blue-collar industry, coupled with a rise in absentee ownerships and mergers with out-of-town corporations, have caused businesses to care much less about the City's welfare. "You hear that companies are not attracted to Cambridge." Stockwell laments, "because the paralytic city government and a lack of businessmen have an effect on the price structure. A lot of people might consider moving in if more active political groups made concessions. But now they are going elsewhere. Other cities...
...role in city politics, Stockwell says, "If I had been accepted to this office to bring back Cambridge that would be one thing. But Harvard Trust is bigger than it was [in the days of ex-President Robert Duncan]. I've got meetings later today in Arlington and Belmont. Pre-commitments occupy my time--I can't dedicate my future to the reconstruction of Cambridge. But we do pay our taxes...