Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Task Force, New York City...
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...Douglas, from the English department at Columbia University, actually changed her project after coming to the center, giving up "American Saints of the Victorian Era" for a less highfalutin subject: "Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and the Literary Life of New York in the 1920s." "There's a broader audience than the university is telling us," she insists, voicing a favorite wisdom of the center...
...serves on a committee advising the American Bar Association on a code of ethics for lawyers. He has participated in a TV panel discussion on Jonestown, organized by Frankel, who not only continues to teach at Columbia but also mans an office that the N.H.C. maintains in New York City. Long an ideologue of the humanities, Frankel has defined the tightrope Bennett and the fellows must walk. The center is not for "the leisure of the theoried class," he says. But scholarship, on the other hand, "must be free to follow crooked paths to unexpected conclusions...
HALBERSTAM has the makings of a great historical novel here. But after all those years of having his rhetorical flourishes cut by The New York Times's good, gray copy desk, he can't resist opening the floodgates. He writes of Harry Chandler as though he were the archetypical tycoon, when, actually, even more grotesque immorality founded thousands of American fortunes in these same years--Horatio Alger and Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. Halberstam goes on (and on) to maintain that the Chandlers "in effect invented" Southern California, just like their political hired-gun/reporter Kyle Palmer invented Richard Nixon...