Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, it will be for Beren's competitive talents and his family's wealth that he will long be remembered at Harvard. His father, a member of the class of 1947, donated the money for a new eight-court varsity tennis center that bears both his and Adam's name...
...think we are paying him what he is worth," says Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45. "But people don't take the presidency of Harvard University with the goal of getting a large salary.' Bok, in fact, has a certain amount of independent wealth, as the scion of an affluent Philadelphia family...
...grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time when new science, new technology, new wealth and new people seemed to be uprooting and replacing almost everything that had gone before. And Adams found much wanting in his Harvard experience...
...eight previous economic summit meetings were pageants of wealth and power, set in or near grand palaces that were built with the sweat and blood of ordinary people. For the ninth summit, the scene was turned on its head. The buildings of Williamsburg, where the leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies gathered over the weekend, could be tucked into one wing of Versailles, the site of last year's meeting. Marble, granite and gold gave way to wood, brick and pewter. Vistas of canals and cobbled courtyards yielded to intimate gardens of a few square yards and dusty...
...perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work without conflict of interest in an art world that even then was a shady, manipulative place, if not the deep swamp it has since become. That was one reason why people trusted his taste. Another...