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...Edwin C. Whitehead of Greenwich, Conn.--who is the largest stockholder of Revlon, Inc.--has offered to fund an independent facility called "The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" and staffed by MIT scientists...
...Whitehead and MIT officials have called the proposed arrangement unique among American universities. In the past few years, other major universities have also considered arrangements to take advantage of the rapidly expanding--and lucrative--field of biotechnology...
...returned to carpentry. After a year, though, fate in the form of Harvard intervened, asking him if he would like a position as a junior fellow at the University. So Kelleher joined "a distinguished lot" of junior fellows and a crew of senior fellows that included Alfred North Whitehead and Samuel Eliot Morison. He spent long weekends tramping through the country with Henry Lee Shattuck '01, a philanthropically-minded graduate who became so interested in Kelleher's work that he helped find the money for a chair in Irish Studies...
...suggests that this social upheaval may turn out to be as important as the cultural and political revolution that created the nation. Yankelovich recognizes that selfishness often masquerades as "self-actualization" and that "nothing has subverted self-fulfillment more thoroughly than self-indulgence." But borrowing from Alfred North Whitehead, he notes that "great ideas of ten enter reality in strange guises and with disgusting alliances...
...Complaint was regarded by some to have distorted his heritage for a few laughs and committed a profitable act of cultural gangsterism. Judging from his published responses, Roth was surprised that he had caused such a fuss. One does not, after all, have to be Alfred North Whitehead to understand that the characters in Portnoy are amusing words on paper. On the other hand, one did not have to be the smartest man in Elyria, Ohio, to recognize neighbors' traits in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...