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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 13, 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
TONY SNOW
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN IPD
SUBJECT:
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES AWARDS
I. SUMMARY
On Friday, November 15, at 11:30 a.m. in the East Room,
you will join NEH Chairman Lynne Cheney in presenting this
year's Charles Frankel Awards for outstanding contributions
to teaching humanities. About 300 will attend.
II. DISCUSSION
The remarks (8 minutes, on cards) pay tribute to the way
in which the winners have enriched the cultural heritage of
America through education.
(Duggan/Simon)
November 13, 1991
Draft Two
Frankel
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: FRANKEL HUMANITIES AWARDS
EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991
11:30 AM
Welcome to all of you. A special welcome to Lynne Cheney,
chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to members
of the Endowment's National Council, and of course to our
honorees. Lynne, I want you to know how deeply I value the
achievements of NEH and especially how much I appreciate your
leadership. You are an exemplary scholar and an outstanding
public servant. You're leading NEH to reach beyond the community
of scholars and artists and enrich the cultural life of millions
of Americans.
As we honor recipients of the third annual Charles Frankel
Prize for the humanities, I would like to recall the words of
Thomas Jefferson. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never
will be
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the
dawn of day."
Jefferson's words point to the vital connection between
knowledge and freedom. They remind us that citizens of all ages
must strive for greater learning if society is to thrive. This
prize honors men and women who are teachers-at-large, who share
with the public their love for the humanities and for America as
2
a civilization. With the Frankel Prize, we honor front-line
defenders of our nation's culture and values.
Charles Frankel was a university professor, writer, cultural
affairs leader in our diplomatic service, and founder of the
National Humanities Center. Our honorees exemplify the
commitment to learning and civic responsibility that
characterized his great life. Their achievements give resonance
to the words of Henry Adams: "A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops."
Winton Blount [BLUNT], my good friend from Alabama, is a man
of many parts. He has poured equal portions of his tremendous
talent and energy into business entrepreneurship, public service,
and leadership in education and the humanities. For the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, he and his wife Carolyn generously donated
an outstanding performing arts center. He is a patron and
director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. He has
served more than three decades as a trustee of the University of
Alabama, and he serves on the Alabama Foundation for Educational
Excellence. He also has helped support the written word in a way
few of us ever will have the chance to do -- namely, as U.S.
Postmaster General. Think of all the latter-day Brownings and
Brontes whose love verses and novel manuscripts reached their
destinations thanks to Winton Blount!
With a passion for American history and culture, Ken Burns
has taken this country's most defining experience and made of it
a documentary film masterpiece, The Civil War. Thirty-eight
3
million television viewers have observed Ken Burns's artistry in
recounting America's epic. Ken also has made acclaimed
documentaries on Huey Long, Thomas Hart Benton, the Brooklyn
Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. I can't wait for him to
complete his next project -- a film about baseball.
Happy occasions are coming in bundles today. This is the
birthday of Winton Blount's wife, Carolyn; and of Ken Burns's
daughter Lilly, who is 5 years old today.
An insightful literary critic and teacher, Louise Cowan
[COW-en] believes that appreciation of literature is essential in
the formation of civic and business leaders. Over the years she
has impressed thousands of students with the power of literature
to form the conscience and consciousness of a people. She ranks
among the great builders of education in Texas. As English
Department Chairman and Graduate School Dean, she brought
strength and distinction to the University of Dallas during its
formative years. As founder of the Dallas Institute of
Humanities and Culture, she has brought community leaders
together to discuss the impact of the humanities on civic values.
One of her new students is my daughter-in-law, Laura. As a
remarkable teacher of teachers, Louise Cowan also founded the
Dallas Teachers Academy, which helps deepen the learning and
skills of teachers in the Dallas public schools.
Karl Haas [HAHSS] has endeared himself to millions of radio
listeners for his "Adventures in Good Music" program. Karl's
program combines selections of classical music with his warm and
4
informative commentaries. Karl's appeal reaches beyond the usual
confines of classical music audiences. He likes to tell about
the letters he gets from farmers who tune in his show on their
transistor radios while driving their tractors. His large
following also includes many who listen to the Armed Services
Radio Network. Karl Haas began his musical career as a concert
pianist. He continues his concert tours and performed in 25
cities last year. Karl also is author of the popular reference
book, Inside Music.
John Kuo Wei Tchen [KOO-oh WAY CHEN] is a professional
historian who has helped Americans discover the riches of
immigrant culture through his prolific writings, lectures, media
productions and organizational efforts. As co-founder of New
York's Chinatown History Museum, he has won praise across the
nation for his innovative approaches to presenting community
history. He served two years as chairman of the New York Council
for the Humanities, and recently he was appointed to the Advisory
Council of the Smithsonian Institution. He wrote of a prize-
winning book on photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown.
On behalf of all Americans, Barbara and I thank you for your
commitment to the humanities and to your fellow citizens. May
God bless you. Now I would like to ask Chairman Lynne Cheney to
join me in presenting the Charles Frankel Prizes for 1991.
#
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(Duggan/Simon)
November 8, 1991
Draft One
Frankel
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
FRANKEL HUMANITIES AWARDS
EAST ROOM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991
11:30 a.m.
[Acknowledgments, including of course NEH chairman Lynne
Cheney]
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Welcome to all of you. As we honor recipients of the third
annual Charles Frankel Prize for the humanities, I would like to
recall the words of Thomas Jefferson. "If a nation expects to be
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never was and never will be.
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Enlighten the people
generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will
vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Jefferson's words point to the vital connection between
knowledge and freedom. They remind us that citizens of all ages
must strive for greater learning if society is to thrive. This
prize honors men and women who are teachers-at-large, who share
with the public their love for the humanities and for America as
a civilization.
NEH
Charles Frankel was a university professor, writer, cultural
draft affairs leader in our diplomatic service, and founder of the
National Humanities Center. Our honorees exemplify the
commitment to learning and civic responsibility that
characterized his great life.
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Winton Blount [BLUNT], my good friend from Alabama, is a man
of many parts. He has poured equal portions of his tremendous
talent and energy into business entrepreneurship, public service,
and leadership in education and the humanities. For the Alabama
NEH
Shakespeare Festival, he and his wife Carolyn generously donated
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an outstanding performing arts center. He is a patron and
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director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. He has
served more than three decades as a trustee of the University of
Alabama, and he serves on the Alabama Foundation for Educational
Excellence. He also has helped support the written word in a way
few of us ever will have the chance to do -- namely, as U.S.
Postmaster General. Think of all the latter-day Brownings and
Brontes whose love verses and novel manuscripts reached their
destinations thanks to Winton Blount!
With a passion for American history and culture, Ken Burns
translated Shelby Foote's literary masterpiece, The Civil War,
into a documentary film masterpiece. Thirty-eight million
television viewers have observed Ken Burns's artistry in
recounting America's epic. Ken also has made acclaimed
documentaries on Huey Long, Thomas Hart Benton, the Brooklyn
Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. I can't wait for him to
complete his next project -- a film about baseball.
Happy occasions are coming in bundles today. This is the
birthday of Winton Blount's wife, Carolyn, and of Ken Burns's
wife, Amy.
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An insightful literary critic and teacher, Louise Cowan
[COW-en] believes that appreciation of literature is essential in
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has impressed thousands of students with the power of literature
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to form the conscience and consciousness of a people. She ranks
among the great builders of education in Texas. As English
Department Chairman and Graduate School Dean, she brought
strength and distinction to the University of Dallas during its
formative years. As founder of the Dallas Institute of
Humanities and Culture, she has brought community leaders
together to discuss the impact of the humanities on civic values.
She also founded of the Dallas Teachers Academy, which helps
deepen the learning and skills of teachers in the Dallas public
schools.
Karl Haas [HAHS] has endeared himself to millions of radio
listeners for his "Adventures in Good Music" program. Karl's
program combines selections of classical music with his warm and
informative commentaries. Karl's appeal reaches beyond the usual
confines of classical music audiences. He likes to tell about
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the letters he gets from farmers who tune in his show on their
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transistor radios while driving their tractors. His large
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cities last year. Karl also is author of the popular reference
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John Kuo Wei Tchen [KOO-oh WAY CHEN] is a professional
historian who has helped Americans discover the riches of
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immigrant culture through his prolific writings, lectures, media
productions and organizational efforts. As co-founder of New
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York's Chinatown History Museum, he has won praise across the
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nation for his innovative approaches to presenting community
history. He served two years as chairman of the New York Council
for the Humanities, and recently he was appointed to the Advisory
Council of the Smithsonian Institution. He wrote of a prize-
winning book on photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown.
On behalf of all Americans, Barbara and I thank you for your
commitment to the humanities and to your fellow citizens. May
God bless you. Now I would like to ask Chairman Lynne Cheney to
join me in presenting each of you with the Charles Frankel Prize
for 1991.
#
#
#
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March 22, 1987, Sunday, FINAL EDITION
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LENGTH: 1185 words
HEADLINE: CLASSIC LOWBROW
KARL HAAS' RADIO SHOW GETS DOWN TO GRASS ROOTS
BYLINE: By Howard Reich
BODY:
He has an audience of 20 million, more medals than a banana republic
general, and enough honorary doctorates to cover half the walls in his New York
City apartment.
All this he has accrued by performing a task so basic to culture in
America- and elsewhere--it's a wonder more people aren't doing it.
Simply put, Karl Haas explains to the masses the mysteries of an exotic
and sometimes forbidding world: classical music. He does this in a chummy,
plain-talking way that sometimes shocks the longhairs and usually delights just
about everyone else.
And after nearly 30 years of gabbing about the classics via radio, TV and
concert appearances, Haas has emerged as the world's leading point man for
serious music.
"A farmer once said to me, 'I listen to you every day with a transistor
radio that I keep mounted on my tractor,' = recalls Haas, whose "Adventures in
Good Music" radio program is heard in Chicago from 7-8 p.m. Monday through
Friday on WNIB (FM 97.1).
=
Sometimes I don't understand a damn thing you're talking about,' he
continued, 'but I always like the way you say it.' Now that's what I call a
compliment!"
Indeed, Haas could probably charm Alice Cooper into listening to a discourse
on the late Beethoven quartets. With his sing-song voice, lilting German accent
and frequently fractured English, Haas would be entertaining even if he never
played a note of music.
But music, after all, is what Haas is all about, so between the expansive
soliloquies of his radio show, he plays musical snippets either at the piano or
via recording. The programs bear such ingratiating titles as "Frills and Trills"
(on the art of ornamentation), "Air Lift" (on "music designed to exhilarate
listeners") and "Love's Labors Not Lost" (featuring works "inspired by
composers' infatuations").
It's not exactly the highbrow approach, and Haas has taken plenty of flak
that.
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"Oh yes, I get critical mail all the time," he says jovially, referring to
only a fraction of the 1,000 letters he receives each month from around the
world. "The purists don't like it, for instance, that I only play excerpts of
works instead of whole compositions.
"Well if they want to hear a whole work, they can buy the record.
"There's plenty of wall-to-wall music all over radio today, but I'm afraid
it doesn't accomplish anything because most of the time Beethoven is relegated
to background music."
So Haas has devoted his broadcast career to breaking up the music with reams
of words. He also spreads the gospel through specials on cable TV's Arts &
Entertainment channel and his book "Inside Music," now in its fourth printing
from Doubleday. His efforts have won him France's "Chevalier de l'ordre des arts
et lettres," the First Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,
a Peabody broadcasting award, and honorary doctorates from more universities
than he can remember, among them the University of Detroit.
Because "Adventures" is broadcast worldwide by the U.S. Armed Forces network
(as well as by Australian Broadcasting Corporation and radio stations throughout
Germany and France, which pick up Haas' foreign-language versions of the show)
his message reaches corners of the world in which classical music normally
wouldn't have a prayer.
"One of the most moving letters I've ever received came during the Vietnam
War," recalls Haas, 59. "It was in response to a program I had done called
'Mystery Composer Quiz,' in which the listener was to guess the identity of the
composer through various hints I provided.
"The letter arrived in a filthy envelope; I don't know how the post office
even deciphered it. I opened it, and there was an equally filthy scrap of paper
inside it, and on it was scribbled:
= 'There's a hell of a mystery as to why I should be in this filthy foxhole
here in Vietnam, but there was no mystery to your composer today. I got it right
away.'
"This was from a young soldier operating a radio in a foxhole in Vietnam,
and that letter shook me up."
Thus has Haas brought his beloved classical music into listeners' lives, his
passion for the subject eloquently communicated to those fortunate enough to
hear him. In addition to the radio program, which he tapes at his home and
syndicates through WCLV radio in Cleveland, Haas perpetually works the piano
recital/guest conducting circuit.
And, yes, he chats during his recitals and orchestral engagements as much as
he does on the radio.
"The beauty of talking," says Haas, who has never performed a recital in
Chicago, "is that you not only break the ice, but you can tell the listeners
something you feel intensely about a piece of music that they simply would not
know about otherwise.
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"I don't like it when artists go on stage, for instance, and refuse to even
announce the title of their encores. It's unconscionable!
"I don't like it when everybody on stage sits there in tails, and everyone
in the audience sits quietly in their chairs, and if somebody in the audience
coughs the conductor glowers.
"I just don't think that's what music is all about."
Haas speaks from experience, having taken a Ph.D. in music literature from
the University of Heidelberg. In 1936, he fled Nazi persecution of Jews in
Germany to come to the United States, eventually studying piano with the great
Artur Schnabel in New York from 1945 to 1959.
What did Haas learn from Schnabel, widely acknowledged as the greatest
Beethoven pianist of his generation?
"Simply the entire gamut of humanity," says Haas. "I would ring him in the
morning, we would talk German, and we would walk around Central Park for an
hour-and-a-half, two hours, talking about everything but music.
"Then we went upstairs to the studio. When I sat at the piano, he would not
listen to exercises. He himself called the lessons 'consultations,' not lessons.
In other words, it was a matter of discussing interpretations. He was a
brilliant mentor."
By the late '50s, Haas was playing piano recitals broadcast throughout
Canada by the CBC radio network, which asked him to double up as his own emcee.
He was so smitten with the music/talk format that when WJR radio in Detroit
invited him to "come aboard and do whatever I liked" in 1959, "Adventures in
Good Music" was born.
Today, Haas cannot imagine a time when he won't be doing the show; in fact,
he hopes to expand his scope with a classics videotape series for kids.
"I'm knee-deep in trying to get funding for it," says Haas. "When you think
about kids age 8 to 11, you're talking about parents who are in their late 20s
and early 30s. And I'm afraid there is no classical music in these homes, and
there is little in school. It is sadly a fact that almost 50 percent of our
public schools no longer have any music.
"So who is going to go to the Chicago Symphony 25 years hence? This is what
concerns me.
"I'm not saying that we need to convert kids. I don't care what they do when
they grow up, but I think they have a birthright to know that this kind of music
exists, and I am going to make sure they do."
GRAPHIC: PHOTO: Karl Haas: 'There's plenty of wall-to-wall music all over
radio today, but
most of the time Beethoven is relegated to background
music.'
PHOTO: Haas interviews Artur Rubinstein for WJR radio in Detroit in 1960.
PHOTO: When not taping his radio program, Haas frequently performs as a
pianist or guest conductor.
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LENGTH: 1271 words
HEADLINE: The President Meets His 'Civil War' Hero
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Donnie Radcliffe, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Ever since Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lent his
set of videotapes of "The Civil War" to President Bush, the White House had been
trying to set up a meeting between Bush and Ken Burns, the documentary's
producer-director. Then Thursday night, a Bush aide called Burns to ask if he,
his wife, Amy, and their daughters, Sarah, 7, and Lilly, 3, could be at the
White House the next morning.
Could they ever! Not even living in remote Walpole, N.H., could keep Burns
and his family from accepting an invitation like that.
"It was a window of opportunity," Burns said yesterday of the appointment.
"Of particular delight was that the president invited my family too."
At 4:30 a.m. Friday, the Burnses hit the highway for the nearest airport, a 1
1/2-hour drive away in Hartford, Conn. Once aboard the flight to Washington,
whom should Burns encounter but two former chairmen of the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the very organization that, with General Motors, sponsored
the 11-hour documentary produced for public television by Washington's own WETA,
Channel 26.
Neither University of Massachusetts Chancellor Joseph D. Duffey (NEH chairman
1977-81) nor William Bennett (1981-85) was a stranger to Burns. In fact,
Bennett, now the nation's drug policy director, has been involved in nearly
every other documentary the 37-year-old filmmaker has made, including "The
Brooklyn Bridge" and "Huey Long." At the White House, yet a third - and the
current -- NEH chairman, Lynne Cheney, awaited the Burnses, who were joined by
his brother and coproducer Ric Burns and production assistant Lynn Novick.
In the Oval Office, the conversation ranged from Bush's fascination with the
film -- "He was visibly moved. It was clear that he'd seen the whole series,"
said Burns -- to a Lucite-mounted, limited-edition baseball "card" sitting on a
credenza that pictures youthful-looking Yale first baseman George Bush. That
sparked a discussion on the history of baseball, Burns's next film project, in
which he hopes to include an interview with Bush.
There also were introductions to fellow New Hampshirite John Sununu and -- in
the Rose Garden -- Millie and Ranger Bush. Back in the Oval Office, at Sarah
Burns's request, Bush scrawled what is probably the ultimate in notes explaining
a school-day absence.
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"To the third grade of The Grammar School [of Putney, Vt.], good luck," the
president wrote. He signed it "George Bush."
A picture of John Adams, America's first vice president, hangs in his 43rd
successor's office at the White House. And therein lies a tale that Dan Quayle
told 2,000 listeners last week at the annual Susan G. Komen Foundation Awards
luncheon in Dallas, where he and Marilyn Quayle were recipients of the 1990
Betty Ford Award for their work in informing the public about breast cancer.
"For me to receive this award from a First Lady, though in absentia, whose
name is synonymous with courage is both flattering and yes, even as vice
president, a bit intimidating," Quayle said. "Intimidating because my presence
here this afternoon confirms an emerging truism of the 1990s - namely, that
behind every great woman there is a man struggling to get within camera range.
Marilyn knows what I mean."
It was at last year's luncheon that Marilyn Quayle revealed that her mother
had died of breast cancer. In the year that followed, Quayle said he watched his
wife "fight her own disease and succeed." (She underwent a hysterectomy this
summer.) "I have never been prouder of Marilyn than during this past year."
Recalling that the disease also touched the Adams family, Quayle told how
John Adams conveyed the news of his daughter Nabby's death from breast cancer
"to his friend Thomas Jefferson in a postscript that still moves us across the
centuries. It said:
= 'Your friend, my only daughter, expired yesterday morning in the arms of
her husband, her son, her daughter, her father and her mother, her husband's two
sisters, and two of her nieces, in the 49th year of her age, 46 of which she was
the healthiest of us all; since which she has been a monument to suffering and
to patience.' IF
Established for education, treatment and research involving breast cancer,
the Betty Ford Award was presented to the Quayles by Susan Ford Bales, daughter
of the former First Lady, who was the award's first recipient. Mrs. Ford was
unable to attend because she is recovering from foot surgery.
Both Betty Ford and another former First Lady, Nancy Reagan, underwent
mastectomies for breast cancer during their husbands' presidencies. Mrs. Reagan,
who attended the luncheon, received the award in 1988.
Barbara Bush was the host, but it was Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder who was
standing just inside the door yesterday at the White House. The occasion was a
reception for recipients of the National Rehabilitation Hospital's 1990 Victory
Awards, one of whom -- Ben Vereen -- wanted Wilder to introduce him at a related
gala last night at the Kennedy Center.
While Wilder looked over the state rooms virtually unnoticed, Vereen and
fellow entertainer Patty Duke were being asked for autographs.
They were there because they both overcame emotional disorders and, along
with I. King Jordan, Gallaudet University's first deaf president, were among the
38 recipients of the awards.
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BURNS
With The Civil War, he
succeeded in uniting the
States-in acclaim
Military glory, wrote Abraham Lincoln, is "the at-
tractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood." In
his masterful 11-hour PBS documentary, The Civil
War, producer-director Ken Burns revealed both
the blood and the rainbow to 39 million Ameri-
cans who sat entranced by their screens for five
nights in September. Employing poignant letters
from soldiers, haunting tintypes and the evocative
voices of such actors as Jason Robards and Julie
Harris, the intense, boyish Burns, 37, labored for
more than five years on his vision of the war. For
his effort; he has been hailed as the most accom-
plished documentarian of his generation. Wrote
columnist George F. Will: "Our Iliad has found its
Homer." Viewers agreed; the show became the
highest-rated PBS offering ever. "We've been told
that we're out of shape, inarticulate, passive and
willing to watch MTV," says Burns. "But we are a
people starved for self-definition. Something like
The Civil War comes along, and there's a momen-
tary coming together. It has touched what Lincoln
called the mystic chords of memory.
It has also brought Burns his own share of the
celebrity spotlight. He has visited the White House,
jawed with Jay Leno and had offers from Holly-
wood to direct dramatic films. At home in Wal-
pole, N.H., with wife Amy, 35, and daughters Sa-
rah, 8, and Lilly, 4, Burns receives about 60
missives per day-letters filled with gratitude,
heartfelt reminiscences of long-dead forebears
and, usually from the South, a few arguments con-
cerning his interpretation of history. One North
Carolina viewer wrote to Burns that he "paraded
across thousands of TV screens a very prejudiced
account of a very touchy period." Burns remains
wary of fame. Celebrity is like chocolate cake," he
says. "It's good tasting, but if you eat too much,
you get sick." His next major venture? A look at the
great American pastime, baseball. No one will be
surprised if he hits another home run.
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Nov. 6 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
versity of Iowa, mad
Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater on the President's Meeting
lections available to
on POW/MIA Affairs With General John W. Vessey, Jr.
year.
November 6, 1989
And then there's
characterization of
enchanted audience
The President met today with Special
progress and cooperation on the orderly de-
senior citizens. And
Presidential Emissary for POW/MIA Affairs
parture program, the emigration of Amera-
the Chautauqua-tha
Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr., USA, Ret. They
sian children, and the resettlement of
es about the ideas an
reviewed the progress made during Gener-
former reeducation center detainees. They
in history, philosophy
al Vessey's discussions in Hanoi on October
also discussed the effort of American non-
And Americo Pare
29 and 30 with Vietnamese Vice Premier
governmental organizations to assist the
professor emeritus
Nguyen Co Thach.
people of Vietnam with humanitarian help.
Texas in Austin. Illn
On the POW/MIA issue, General Vessey
Finally, the President and General Vessey
being with us today,
told the President that a number of agree-
ments were reached. One was to refine and
discussed perspectives on Cambodia. The
his splendid efforts t
President said he was very pleased to hear
Mexican-American CI
expand the process of joint cooperation to
resolve the compelling discrepancy cases,
of the agreements to expand efforts to re-
And finally, Patrici
solve the POW/MIA issue and looks for-
sultant on reading ]
including additional research to resolve the
fate of these Americans. General Vessey
ward to continued progress on this and
led teaching and (
told the President of his discussions on the
other humanitarian concerns.
become a model foi
across the country.
You know the
Franklin dining out
other diners asked a
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Charles Frankel
tion of man deserve
Prizes for Distinguished Service to the Humanities
body gave an exan
that might be. And
November 6, 1989
and his answer was
rainy day who does
First, I want to welcome Dr. Lynne
inner cities and gentle, small towns, reaf-
Well, for decades, y
Cheney, the National Endowment Chair-
firming the magic of the spoken and writ-
of reading and thi
man, and then greet the members of the
ten word and fostering a variety of public
questioning. And by
Council on the Humanities-distinguished
programs-in museums, in libraries, in
derstanding of the
educators and, of course, most of all, our
schools-showing how higher learning can
of the humanities, y
honorees. I also see Daphne Wood Murray
spur nation and neighborhood.
others to do the Si
out here, Director of the Institute of
We are a people curious about our own
congratulations!
Museum Services, and Diane Payton, the
traditions and about those of other nations.
And let me comr
Executive Director of the President's Com-
And our cultural institutions are encourag-
mittee on the Arts and the Humanities.
ing that curiosity with a variety of thought-
So, let me welcome all of you. Barbara
ful, intellectually challenging programs. The
and I are just delighted to be here. And let
Frankel Prize winners are leaders in this
Nomination of
me also say what a pleasure it is to be able
to honor you, the first recipients of the Na-
movement. The honorees are diverse, cre-
While Serving
tional Endowment for the Humanities
ative, an energetic group. And as such, they
Disarmament
Charles Frankel Prize. Ralph Emerson once
represent the vitality of the humanities in
wrote: "The scholar is a student of the
the Nation as a whole.
November 6, 19
world." Well, the Frankel Prize was created
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian,
this year to recognize scholars who are
Daniel Boorstin has told the American story
The President to
teachers of the world-those who have led
to millions around the globe-not to men-
tion to nominate
a lifetime of study and whose scholarship
tion his role as Librarian of Congress Emer-
career member of
has brought history, literature, philosophy,
itus.
ice, Class of Min
and other humanitarian disciplines to mil-
And as president of Chicago's Field
rank of Ambassad
lions. And together they've helped bring an
Museum of Natural History, Willard
service as United
appreciation of the humanities to farms and
"Sandy" Boyd, former president of the Uni-
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Nov. 6
versity of Iowa, made world-renowned col-
of nominees considered by the Endowment;
dent's Meeting
lections available to more Americans each
the 26 members of the National Council on
Jr.
the Humanities which reviewed the nomi-
year. And then there's Clay Jenkinson. His
nations; and, yes, Lynne Cheney, whose
characterization of Thomas Jefferson has
idea it was to recognize those who have
enchanted audiences from schoolkids to
brought the humanities to a wider audi-
on on the orderly de-
senior citizens. And he's led the revival of
ence. Each of you reflects what Samuel
migration of Amera-
the Chautauqua-that institution that teach-
Johnson called the salutory influence of ex-
he resettlement of
es about the ideas and lives of giant figures
ample.
iter detainees. They
in history, philosophy, politics, and the arts.
Each of you underscores the reasons that
rt of American non-
And Americo Paredes-author, folklorist,
we gather here today. And that reason, of
ations to assist the
professor emeritus at the University of
course, is one man's life, a very special life,
h humanitarian help.
Texas in Austin. Illness prevents him from
the life of Charles Frankel, professor at Co-
t and General Vessey
being with us today, but we want to honor
lumbia and Assistant Secretary of State for
on Cambodia: The
his splendid efforts to bring the richness of
Educational and Cultural Affairs, a network
very pleased to hear
Mexican-American culture to us all.
television host, a writer, narrator, author of
expand efforts to re-
And finally, Patricia Bates, a national con-
12 books, including "The Case For Modern
issue and looks for-
sultant on reading programs. Her scholar-
Man." As the first President and Director of
rogress on this and
led teaching and discussion groups have
the National Humanities Center, Charles
become a model for programs in libraries
Frankel was a model scholar and citizen.
icerns.
across the country.
And he knew the vital role that the human-
You know the story about Benjamin
ities play in the life of our society-and
Franklin dining out in Paris. And one of the
through enduring scholarship and concern.
other diners asked a question: What condi-
And so, in honoring him, we honor the
les Frankel
tion of man deserves the most pity? Every-
concepts of teaching and learning; in short,
body gave an example of what condition
the joy of knowledge. So, let me present
that might be. And Franklin's turn came,
now-Lynne, with your help-the first
and his answer was: a lonesome man on a
Charles Frankel Prizes for Distinguished
rainy day who does not know how to read.
Service to the Humanities, and say on
le, small towns, reaf-
Well, for decades, you've shown the value
behalf of every citizen: America thanks you
the spoken and writ-
of reading and thinking, of probing and
from the bottom of our hearts.
g a variety of public
questioning. And by instilling a greater un-
God bless you all. Thank you very, very
ns, in libraries, in
derstanding of the text, themes, and ideas
much. And thank you for all you've done.
higher learning can
of the humanities, you've inspired countless
others to do the same. And for that, my
Note: The President spoke at 3:05 p.m. in
borhood.
irious about our own
congratulations!
Room 450 of the Old Executive Office
hose of other nations.
And let me commend, too, the hundreds
Building.
tutions are.-encourag-
a variety of thought-
enging programs. The
S are leaders in this
Nomination of Stephen J. Ledogar for the Rank of Ambassador
rees are diverse, cre-
While Serving as United States Representative to the Conference on
up. And as such, they
Disarmament
of the humanities in
November 6, 1989
e-winning historian,
d the American story
The President today announced his inten-
the Conference on Disarmament.
: globe-not to men-
tion to nominate Stephen J. Ledogar, a
Since 1987 Ambassador Ledogar has
an of Congress Emer-
career member of the Senior Foreign Serv-
served as U.S. Representative to the Euro-
ice, Class of Minister-Counselor, for the
pean conventional arms negotiations and
of Chicago's Field
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
the U.S. Representative for mutual and bal-
il History, Willard
service as United States Representative to
anced force reductions negotiations with
president of the Uni-
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT A CEREMONY FOR THE 1991 WINNERS OF THE
CHARLES FRANKEL PRIZE AWARDED BY
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
The President: I would like to welcome Dr. Lynne Cheney,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as
the members of the Endowment's National Council, and, of course,
the five Americans we honor today, the recipients of the Charles
Frankel Prize and their families. [Any other guests, who should
be recognized by the President, can be mentioned here.]
Looking at this distinguished group, I am reminded that the
true wealth of America lies in the hearts and minds; the skills
and talents of her citizens. Barbara and I are delighted to join
in honoring five Americans who have shared their knowledge and
love of history, literature, music, philosophy and other
humanities disciplines with their fellow citizens. And we would
like to extend our best wishes and congratulations to Carolyn
Blount [pronounced "blunt"] and Lilly Burns, who are celebrating
their birthdays here today.
I would also like to take this opportunity to recognize two
national treasures: the National Endowment for the Humanities and
its Chairman, Lynne Cheney. Over the past twenty-six years, the
Endowment has enriched our national life by supporting projects
that increase our knowledge and preserve our national heritage.
Those of us who live now, in this time and place, are not the
first travellers in the human journey--others have gone before
us. Through the humanities, we can learn from the paths they have
taken, from the landmarks they have left behind. In the battle to
preserve America's cultural heritage, Lynne Cheney is, as one
newspaper columnist put it, our "secretary of domestic defense. "
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "If a nation expects to be
ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what
never was and never will be
Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil
spirits at the dawn of day. "
Jefferson's words remind us of the vital connection between
knowledge and freedom. They remind us of the responsibilities of
freedom and the importance of education. The Charles Frankel
Prize honors individuals who are teachers at-large: individuals
who share their love of the humanities and freedom with their
fellow citizens. The winners of the Charles Frankel Prize have
brought an appreciation of the humanities to Americans living in
cities, in small towns, on farms, and even to Americans serving
our national defense on military bases around the world.
This year's winners of the Frankel Prize are a diverse,
creative, and energetic group. They exemplify the commitment to
learning and civic responsibility that characterized the life of
Charles Frankel. Professor at Columbia University and Assistant
Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, a network
television host, a writer, and first president and director of the
National Humanities Center, Charles Frankel was a model citizen
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and scholar. Frankel once said that "A philosophy is there to be
lived out. What goes into the word dies, what goes into the work
lives. " Today we honor five Americans who share that spirit and
that commitment.
Winton Blount [pronounced "blunt"], for example, is a
business leader who has spent a lifetime promoting and supporting
the arts and humanities in his home state of Alabama and across
the country. He and his wife, Carolyn, built the Carolyn Blount
Theatre that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Since 1985,
the theatre has staged 400 performances a year, many of them for
schoolchildren Winton Blount serves on the board of the Alabama
Foundation for Educational Excellence, and has served his country
as Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service. I would also
like to mention that Winton Blount was a B-29 pilot in World War
II with the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Ken Burns has shared his passion for American history with his
fellow Americans in several award-winning films, including the
documentary miniseries, The Civil War. This wonderful series has
been watched by millions of Americans, who have gained new
insights into our history as a people. The series has already
been broadcast in England and Australia, and will be broadcast in
Thailand, Cyprus, Israel, and fifteen other countries, bringing
the history of America's great, epic war to people around the
globe.
Dr. Louise Cowan [pronounced "cow-en"] has combined a career
as a professor and university administrator with a commitment to
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bringing the humanities to the people of Texas. Teachers in the
Dallas public schools and their students have benefited from the
teacher-enrichment programs that Louise Cowan initiated at the
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which she helped found
eleven years ago. She has also inspired business and political
leaders with her vision of the role of the humanities in public
life through the Center for Civic Leadership that she founded at
the University of Dallas.
For thirty-two years, Karl Haas [pronounced "hahs" like the
character on "Gunsmoke"] has shared his knowledge and love of
classical music with radio listeners across this country, and with
the men and women who listen to the Armed Forces Radio Network
worldwide. Karl Haas was born in Germany and studied at the
Mannheim Conservatory before immigrating to America in 1936. An
acclaimed pianist, as well as radio broadcaster, Karl Haas has
introduced millions of people to the joys of beautiful music. His
program, "Adventures in Good Music," has won him a devoted
following among the general public. His fan mail--about 1,000
letters a month--has come from soldiers and farmers, as well as
musicians, professors and students, and he counts truck drivers
among his regular listeners.
John Kuo Wei Tchen [pronounced "cu-o"/"way"/"chen"] has
spent the past sixteen years establishing and nurturing
organizations that document and interpret the history of Asians
immigrants to America. Under his leadership, the Chinatown
History Museum in New York City has been praised nationally as a
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model for innovative, community-based history programs that teach
Americans about the 160-year history of the Chinese in New York.
John Tchen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the first
member of his family to be a citizen of the United States. He has
served as chairman of the New York Council for the Humanities and
was recently appointed to the board of the Smithsonian Institution.
Each of you exemplifies the commitment to humanities
scholarship and public life that animated the work of Charles
Frankel. You are richly deserving of the Charles Frankel Prize,
and of the esteem and gratitude of your countrymen. So let me
present now--with your help, Lynne--the Charles Frankel Prize for
Distinguished Service to the Humanities.
On behalf of all Americans, Barbara and I thank you for your
commitment to the humanities and to your fellow citizens. Thank
you for sharing your joy in learning with all of us. God bless
each of you. Thank you.
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TALKING POINTS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH
CEREMONY FOR THE 1991 WINNERS OF THE
CHARLES FRANKEL PRIZE AWARDED BY
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
- Welcome Lynne Cheney, Chairman of the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Endowment's National Council members, the
five Frankel Prize winners and their families. Acknowledge
Carolyn Blount, wife of one of the winners, and Lilly Burns,
daughter of another winner. They are celebrating their
birthdays on November 15th.
- Remarks explaining that the Charles Frankel Prize recognizes
those who have contributed to the general public's knowledge
and understanding of the humanities.
- Recognize the contributions to America's national life made
by the National Endowment for the Humanities. [SOUNDBITE:
Those of us who live now, in this time and place, are not the
first travellers in the human journey--others have gone
before us. Through the humanities, we can learn from the
paths they have taken, from the landmarks they have left
behind. In the battle to preserve America's cultural
heritage, Lynne Cheney is, as one newspaper columnist, George
Will, put it, our "secretary of domestic defense."]
- A quote about the importance of an educated citizenry to
civilization and democratic society. (Jefferson: "If a
nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at
the dawn of day. ")
- Remarks on how winners of the Frankel Prize have shared their
knowledge and love of the humanities with their fellow
citizens at home and abroad (on military bases).
- Remarks about how Charles Frankel combined scholarship with
public service. Frankel was a professor at Columbia
University and Assistant Secretary of State for Educational
and Cultural Affairs, a network television host, a writer,
and first president and director of the National Humanities
Center. Quote from Charles Frankel on the necessity for
living philosophical principles: "A philosophy is there to
be lived out. What goes into the word dies, what goes into
the work lives. " Each of this year's Frankel Prize winners
exemplifies the spirit in which Frankel lived his life.
- Remarks about Winton Blount [pronounced "blunt"]: : a
businessman who has supported the arts and humanities
education in Alabama and nationwide. He and his wife,
Carolyn, built the Carolyn Blount Theatre that houses the
Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Since 1985, the theatre has
staged 400 performances a year, many of them for
schoolchildren. Winton Blount serves on the board of the
Alabama Foundation for Educational Excellence, and has served
his country as Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal
Service. Winton Blount was a B-29 pilot in World War II with
the U.S. Army Air Corps.
- Remarks about Ken Burns: a documentary filmmaker who has
produced several award-winning films on American history,
including The Civil War documentary series. The series has
been viewed by millions of Americans and will be broadcast in
20 foreign countries, from England to Australia.
- Remarks about Dr. Louise Cowan [pronounced "cow-en"]: a
professor of English at the University of Dallas, she is
co-founder of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture,
which sponsors enrichment programs for schoolteachers and
principals. She also founded the Center for Civic Leadership
at the University of Dallas, where civic leaders study how
the humanities can inform public life.
- Remarks about Karl Haas [pronounced "hahs" like the character
on "Gunsmoke"]: a critically acclaimed musician (pianist)
who has hosted the radio program "Adventures in Good Music"
for 32 years. He receives about 1,000 fan letters per month
from people in all walks of life (many from truck drivers).
His program is broadcast on 150 radio stations nationwide,
and on the Armed Forces Radio Network. He immigrated to the
United States from Germany in 1936.
- Remarks about John Kuo Wei Tchen [pronounced
"cu-o"/"way"/"chen"]: a historian who has studied Asian
immigrant history and has established organizations that
educate the public about that history. He co-founded and was
director of the Chinatown History Museum in New York City,
which has been praised nationally as a model for innovative,
community-based history programs that teach Americans about
the 160-year history of the Chinese in New York. John Tchen
was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the first member of
his family to be a citizen of the United States. He has
served as chairman of the New York Council for the Humanities
and was recently appointed to the board of the Smithsonian
Institution.
- Each of the winners exemplifies the life and philosophy of
Charles Frankel. They are deserving of the Frankel Prize and
of the gratitude of all Americans. Lynne Cheney and the
President present the prizes.
- The President thanks the winners on behalf of himself and
Mrs. Bush and all Americans.
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HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF CHARLES FRANKEL PRIZE
Award Recognizes Individuals Who Have Contributed to Americans'
Understanding of Their Cultural Heritage
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
today announced this year's recipients of the Charles Frankel Prize, an
annual award that recognizes five Americans for their work in increasing
the public's understanding of history and other topics in the humanities.
The five recipients this year are Winton Blount, a business leader
who has promoted the arts and humanities both in Alabama and across the
country and who built the Carolyn Blount Theatre complex that houses the
Alabama shakespeare Festival, Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker who
produced, among other films, the critically acclaimed documentary
miniseries The Civil War: Louise Cowan, a humanities professor and
co-founder of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and founder
of the Dallas Teachers Academy; Karl Haas, a musician whose radio
program "Adventures in Good Music" has brought a deeper appreciation of
classical music to a wide cross-section of the American public; and John
Kuo Wei Tchen, former chairman of the New York Council for the Humanities
and co-founder of the Chinatown History Museum, which has served as a
model of community-based history programming and education for
institutions nationwide.
"These five distinguished individuals have enriched our national life
by sharing their understanding and appreciation of history, music and
literature with their fellow citizens," said NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney
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in announcing the prizes. "Each of them exemplifies the commitment to
learning and public service that characterized the work of Charles
Frankel. We at the Endowment are proud to recognize their achievements."
The awards, each of which carries a stipend of $5,000,
commemorate the
late Charles Frankel (1917-79), Columbia University professor of
philosophy, assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural
affairs and first director of the National Humanities Center. Frankel's
life and work exemplify the effective integration of humanities
scholarship and citizenship. This is the third year that the Frankel
Prize has been awarded.
Each of this year's recipients shares a commitment to bringing the
riches of the humanities to a broad spectrum of the general public.
Winton Blount is a business leader who has earned a reputation as &
tireless supporter of humanities programs in Alabama and nationwide.
Since building the $21.5 million Carolyn Blount Theatre for the Alabama
shakespeare Festival, Blount has served as director of the festival and
has developed programs that bring Shakespeare to schoolchildren and adults
across the state. He also serves on the board of directors of the Folger
shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the Court of Governors of the
Royal shakespeare Theatre in England.
Ken Burns is a filmmaker who has won critical and popular acclaim
for his documentary minisaries, The Civil war, which was seen by more than
38 million viewers in its first broadcast on PBS last fall. Burns has
shared his passion for American history with the public through a total of
seven documentary films, including Brooklyn Bridge, which was nominated
for an Academy Award, Huey Long: The Statue of Liberty. which was
nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy, and Thomas Hart Benton.
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Burns is currently at work on a documentary about baseball and another
about the golden age of radio.
Louise Cowan is a university professor who has inspired students,
colleagues, civic leaders and business people alike with her vision of the
vital role that the humanities can play in modern, urban life. As
co-founder and one of the directors of the Dallas Institute of Humanities
and Culture, she has brought together prominent citizens to study the
impact of the humanities on civic values. She started the Dallas Teachers
Academy and has been instrumental in reforming her city's public schools.
At the University of Dallas, where she taught English and classics for 40
years, she helped to establish the humanities curricula at the
undergraduate and graduate levels, and she also inaugurated the Center for
Civic Leadership.
Karl Haas is a concert pianist and conductor who has shared his deep
knowledge and love of classical music with millions of listeners through
his daily radio program, "Adventures in Good Music," which is carried by
more than 150 American radio stations, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation and Mexico City's classical radio station. The program has
also been broadcast worldwide by the 400 stations of the American Armed
Forces Network. For 32 years, the program has combined Haas' informal
commentary on musical and cultural topics with pertinent selections from
the classical repertoire, with emphasis on the interrelationship between
the arts and the humanities. Haes is also the author of Inside Music, a
reference work now in its sixth printing.
John Kuo Wei Tchen is an historian who has advanced Americans'
understanding of immigrant history and cultural diversity through museum
exhibitions, lectures, media productions and books. As acting director of
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the Asian/American Resource Center at Queens College and co-founder of the
Chinatown History Museum, he has interpreted the 160-year history of New
York's Chinese community for both students and the general public. Under
his leadership, the Chinatown History Museum has been nationally
recognized as a model of innovative community history programming and
education.
The five recipients of this year's Frankel Prime were chosen from
nominations received by the Endowment from state humanities
councils,
museums, libraries, historical societies, public television and radio
stations, colleges and universities, media production companies and other
sources. The National Council on the Humanities, the group of 26
distinguished citizens appointed by the President to advise the Endowment,
reviewed the nominations and made recommendations to the NEH Chairman, who
made the final selections.
The deadline for next year's Frankel Prize competition is
Oct. 1, 1991. Nominations will be accepted from any individual or
organization. Nominators, who are asked to submit only one name for
consideration, should send a biographical summary of the candidate and a
letter of no more than two pages describing the candidate's
qualifications. Correspondence should be sent to:
Nomination: Charles Frankel Prine
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Winton Blount
Winton Blount has used his position as a leader in the business
community to promote the arts and humanities in both his native Alabama
and scross the country. Chairman of the board of Blount Inc., an
international manufacturing and construction firm headquartered in
Montgomery, Ala., Blount has earned a reputation as a devoted patron of
the arts and a tireless supporter of the humanities.
Much of Blount's philanthropic activity has focused on theater,
particularly Shakespeare. He is a patron and & director of the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival. Blount and his wife, Carolyn, built the Carolyn
Blount Theatre, a $21.5 million complex that houses the festival, it has
become a regional center for the performing arts. Since 1985, the
theater has mounted some 400 performances annually and sponsored
numerous theater-related educational projects. The University of
Alabama recognizes internships at the theater as partial fulfillment of
requirements for an MFA, and each year the "School Fest" program reaches
thousands of schoolchildren. Blount serves on the Folger Shakespeare
Library's board of directors and Court of Governors of the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre in England.
Blount's contributions to the humanities also include supporting
education. In addition to being a member of the Alabama Foundation for
Educational Excellence, he served for 32 years as trustee and president
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pro tempore of the University of Alabama, and is chairman of the board
of trustees of Rhodes College. In 1991, he was honored by the
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges with the
prestigious Distinguished Service Award for Trusteeship. Blount has
received 11 honorary degrees, including doctorates from the University
of Alabama, St. John University, Seattle-Pacific College and Amherst
College.
In 1968, Blount was President of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. A year later, President Nixon appointed him Postmaster
General and a member of the President's cabinet. He brought about
postal reform, setting up a government corporation. Blount served as
the first Chairman of the Board and Postmaster General of the United
States Postal Service until 1971. In 1986, he was appointed by
President Reagan to the President's Committee on the Arts and
Humanities, where he served until 1988. Blount is currently a member of
the American Enterprise Institute's board of directors.
Born in Union Springs, Ala., in 1921, Blount attended Virginia's
Staunton Military Academy and the University of Alabama. During World
War II, he was a B-29 pilot with the U.S. Army Air Corpo and attained
the rank of First Lieutenant. In 1946, he founded Blount Brothers
Corporation. He has been director of the Union Camp Corporation, a
manufacturer of paper products, since 1973. He is married to the former
Carolyn Self Varner. They have seven children.
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Ken Burns
Ken Burns, recently heralded for his documentary minisories
The Civil war, is considered by many to be the leading historical
documentary film producer in the nation today. His 11-hour series, when
it first aired in September 1990, broke viewership records for a PBS
series, attracting more than 38 million viewers.
Burne calls documentary film "our Homeric mode," a way of
maintaining cultural memory in a world that increasingly relies on
visual images rather than the written word. Making use of still
photographs from some 160 archives, The Civil War combines music, sound
effects, readings from contemporary diaries and letters and interviews
with experts to educate Americans about the war that Burne calls "our
great epic." The result is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of public
television programming.
In addition to The Civil War, which received major support from the
National Endowment for the Humanities and continues to be rebroadcast on
public television stations nationwide, Burns has shared his passion for
American history with the public through many other award-winning
historical documentaries: Brooklyn Bridge (1981), which was nominated
for an Academy Award, The Shakers: Hands to Work. Hearts to God (1984) /
Huev Long (1985) 1 The Statue of Liberty (1985), which was nominated for
both an Academy Award and an Emmy, Thomas Hart Benton (1988); and The
Congress (1989). In 1990, he coproduced Lindbergh, a film that aired as
part of PBS's The American Experience series. He is currently working
on a documentary about the golden age of radio and another about
America's national pastime, baseball.
Born in 1953, Burns attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.,
where he received & B.A. in Film Studies and Design. In 1976, he
co-founded Florentine Films, an independent documentary film production
company. He resides in Walpole, N.H., with his wife, the former Amy
Stechler, and two daughters.
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Louise Cowan has combined & career as professor, scholar and
university administrator with a commitment to bringing the humanities to
the wider community of her native Texas. In 1980, she co-founded the
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, & center for creative
thought about the practical applications of the humanities. As director
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of the humanities in modern, urban life.
During her career as a professor at the University of Dallas, Cowan
was instrumental in establishing that school's humanities curricula at
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shedding light on the conduct of public life, she also inaugurated the
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of the relevance of the humanities to the community. The Goals for
Dallas program has been adopted by cities nationwide. Cowan has also
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of literature to form the conscience and the consciousness of a people.
Born in 1916 in Fort Worth, Texas, Cowan joined the faculty of the
University of Dallas in the 1950s. As chairman of the English
Department, she created a two-year required curriculum based on
paradigmatic texts in world literature, representing the apic, tragic,
comic and lyrie genres. As dean of the Graduate School, she established
the Institute of Philosophic Studies, a Ph.D. program involving the
study of literature, history, philosophy and cultural psychology.
At the Dallas Institute, Cowan initiated a Teachers Academy, now in
its ninth year, that addresses the need for teacher enrichment and
rejuvenation in the city's public schools. By sponsoring month-long
summer sessions on classic texts from world literature, the academy
encourages teachers to deepen their knowledge of the classics and school
principals to rethink their role as educational leaders.
Cowan received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1953,
and
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M.A. and S.A. from Texas Christian University in 1947 and 1946,
respectively. In addition to articles and essays, she has written The
Fugitive Group: A Literary History (1959), The Southern Critics (1971),
Teaching the Teachers (1985), which describes the philosophy and method
of her summer institutes for teachers, and has edited and contributed to
a volume of critical essays, The Terrain of Comedy (1986), a work that
advances and illustrates her approach to the study of literary genres.
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Karl Haas is a perennial favorite of millions of radio listeners.
His "Adventures in Good Music," which combines selections from the
classical repertory with Haas' own engaging commentary, is carried by
more than 150 stations in the United States, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation and Mexico City's classical music station. The program has
also been carried by the 400 stations of the Armed Forces Network
worldwide. Selected installments of the program have been aired in
French and German for European listeners. Hass has twice been awarded
the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.
Haas' informal erudition has won him a devoted following among the
general public, many of whom might otherwise be intimidated by classical
music's complexity. His fan mail--about 1,000 letters a month--has come
from soldiers and farmers, as well as musicians, professors and
students, and he counts truck drivers among his regular listeners.
Haas' passionate commitment to music has characterized his entire
life. He studied music in his native Germany at the Mannhaim
Conservatory, with special courses at the University of Heidelburg, and
emigrated to the United States in 1936. In New York, he studied piano
with Artur Schnabel, who was widely recognized as his generation's
greatest interpreter of the music of Beethoven. During the height of
cold war tensions, just after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Hass
conducted the Ford Foundation's cultural program as resident director in
West Berlin. He also served as U.S. delegate to the International Music
Council of UNESCO. Haae's service earned him France's "Officier
d'academie" and "Chavalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres, as well as
the Federal Republic of Germany's "First Class Order of Merit."
"Adventures in Good Music" grew out of broadcasts for the Canadian
Broadcast Company in which Haas emceed his own recitals. Audiences were
so taken with the combination of music and exposition that Hass
has
maintained that format throughout the show's 32-year run.
Although it
is his radio work that has made him famous, Haas continues his concert
career: In 1990, he performed in 25 cities across the country,
including Fairbanks and Honolulu. The fall of 1991 will mark the 29th
concert series of live "Adventures in Good Music" programs at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
As president and founder of the Detroit Chamber Music Society, Hass
initiated the first commission of a work by public subscription: a
composition by Samuel Barber. He has lectured at many American colleges
and universities and has received eight honorary doctorates. The
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor recently established 4 music
scholarship in his name. Haas, who lives in New York City is also the
author of Inside Music, an extensive reference work that is now in its
sixth printing.
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Through books, essays, exhibitions, lectures, media productions and
organizational work, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen has advanced
Americans' understanding of immigrant history, cultural diversity, race
relations and museum practices in this country. Acting director of the
Asian/American Center at Queens College (City University of New York)
and co-founder of the Chinatown History Museum, Tchen has spent 16 years
building organizations to document and interpret the experience of
Asians in the Americas for the general public. Under Tchen's
leadership, the Chinatown History Museum, exploring the 160-year history
of the Chinese in New York City, has been praised nationally as a model
of innovative, community-based history programming and education.
Born in 1951 in Madison, Wis., Tchen was the first member of his
family to be a citizen of the United States. He grew up in the Chicago
area and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Modern Chinese
History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 1975, he moved to
New York City to work in Manhattan's Chinatown community. He became
coordinator of the Asian American Resource Center of the Bassment
Workshop, an Asian American cultural organization.
In 1979, he and Charles Lai co-founded the New York Chinatown
History Project (now Museum). The museum has mounted several
exhibitions, media productions and public programs, including "The Eight
Pound Livelihood: A History of Chinese Laundry Workers in the United
States," "Both Sides of the Cloth: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New
York" and the museum's current exhibition, "Remembering New York
Chinatown" (produced with support from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation). In 1990, the Chinatown
History Museum was awarded the New York State Governor's Art Award.
For two years, Tchen served as the chair of the New York Council for
the Humanities, and he was recently appointed to the Advisory Council of
the Smithsonian Institution. He has been engaged in a broad range of
cultural policy issues with such organizations as the New York State
Council on the Arts, the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
and National Public Radio. In 1986, Tchen was a Charles Revson Fellow
at Columbia University. He delivered the 1988 keynote address at the
Smithsonian's Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration
The author of many essays and articles, Tchen has most recently
contributed articles to Museums and Communities (forthooming) and to
Moving the Image: Asian Pacific Americans in the Media Arts (1991). His
1984 book Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown won the
Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. Tchen also adited and
wrote the introduction to C.P. Siu's The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of
Social Isolation (1988).
Tchen is completing his Ph.D. dissertation in American History at
New York University.
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# Winton Blount, a philanthropic patron of the humanities in Alabama
who has been a major supporter of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival;
& Ken Burns, a filmmaker, advocate of the humanities and creator
of The Civil War documentary series;
* Louise Cowan, an educator and scholar who is the founder of the
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture,
* Karl Haas, host of public radio's long-running "Adventures in Good
Music" program, and
* John Tchen, a historian who, through the work of New York's
Chinatown History Museum, has contributed to the public's
understanding of the history of Asian Americans in this country.
SELECTION PROCESS: Nominations are reviewed by members of the National
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of 26 advisors that will make recommendations to the NEH Chairman. By
law, only the Chairman can make awards.
ABOUT CHARLES FRANKEL: Charles Frankel (1917-79) was a teacher,
statesman and author known for his commitment to scholarship, education
and public affairs. He was a professor of philosophy at Columbia
University (1939-79), assistant secretary of state for educational and
cultural affairs (1965-67) and president and director of the National
Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park, N.C. (1977-79). Frankel also
taught briefly at the University of Paris (1953-54) and the University of
Dublin (1954), chaired the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO General
Conference (1976), hosted the CBS-TV series The World of Ideas (1959) and
served as the writer, host and narrator of the film In Pursuit of Liberty
(1979). He authored 12 books, including The Case for Modern Man (1956),
The Love of Anxiety and Other Essays (1965) and High on Feggy Bottom: An
Outsider's Inside View of Government (1969), and he edited or contributed
to several other volumes. Frankel also wrote acores of articles for
scholarly journals and general interest publications such as Life and
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GENTLEMAN
605
ng with this bigger
1
an honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had
Break the heart of generosity.
in him, which gentlemen have.
Act iv, SC. I, 1. 30.
Coriolanus, i, I, 215. The only use of "gener-
All's Well that Ends Well. Act v, sc. 3,
use of "planched"
osity."
1. 238. [Parolles]
2
And though he were unsatisfied in getting,
How does that honourable, complete, free-
a gate of steel
hearted gentleman?
eceives and renders
Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,
Timon of Athens. Act iii, SC. I, 1. 9. [Lucul-
He was most princely.
lus] The only use of "free-hearted."
Henry VIII. Act iv, SC. 2, 1. 55. [Griffith]
Honourable gentleman.-Timon of Athens, i,
3
Act iii, SC. 3, 1. 121.
2, 193; iii, 2, 2; iii, 2, 63.
An I had but one penny in the world, thou
11
shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.
Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my
ry VI, ii, 3, 40.
l that Ends Well, iv, 5,
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v, SC. I, 1. 74.
birth, that differs not from the stalling of
[Costard] The only use of "gingerbread."
an ox ?
4
u Like It, iii, 5, 13.
As You Like It. Act i, SC. I, 1. 9. [Orlando]
ummer-Night's Dream,
This is not generous, not gentle, not hum-
The only use of "stalling."
ble.
I know you are a gentleman of good conceit.
Henry VI, iv, 9, 13.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v, SC. 2, 1. 632.
e's Labour's Lost, ii, I,
[Holofernes]
lind] As You Like It. Act v, SC. 2, 1. 58. [Rosa-
Generous
and of free disposition.-Twelfth
12
Night, i, 5, 98.
The motley-minded gentleman that I have
iry V1, ii, I, 21.
Generous and free-Hamlet, iv, 7, 136.
so often met in the forest.
eline, ii, 3, 22.
5
Vell that Ends Well, iv,
As You Like It. Act v, SC. 4, 1. 41. [Jaques]
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
The only use of "motley-minded." See under
201.
'nry VI, i, I, 92; iii, 2,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.
FOOL.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i, SC. I, 1. 138.
13
cus, iv, 2, 35; Macbeth,
[Antonio]
Servingman: What are you?
'summer-Night's Dream,
6
Coriolanus: A gentleman.
I 'll mend it with a largess.
Servingman: A marvellous poor one.
1 John, ii, I, 215.
The Taming of the Shrew. Act i, SC. 2, 1. 151.
Coriolanus: True, so I am.
[Gremio]
EM
He hath
Servingman: Pray you, poor gentleman,
Sent forth great largess to your offices.
take up some other station; here's no place
SO Jewel
Macbeth. Act ii, SC. I, 1. 13. [Banquo]
for you; pray you, avoid: come.
Why dost thou abuse
Coriolanus. Act iv, sc. 5, 1. 28.
cestors, that gem
A poor but worthy gentleman.
ent to the sequent issue,
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Sonnets. No. iv.
Cymbeline. Act i, SC. I, 1. 7. [Gentleman]
and worn.
A largess universal like the sun.
I live like a poor gentleman born.
nds Well. Act v, SC. 3,
Henry V, iv, Prol., 43. See under EYE.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i, SC. I,
Preceding" is repeated in
Liberal largess.-Richard II, i, 4, 44. The only
1. 286. [Slender]
uses of "largess."
Poor gentlemen.-/ Henry VI, ii, 5, 22, and
7
seven times in later plays.
of fair gems enrich'd.
What if a man bring him a hundred pound
Distressed gentleman.-Pericles, ii, 5, 46.
int, 1. 208.
or two, to make merry withal?
14
A gentleman
so rich a gem
han gold.
The [Vincentio] Taming of the Shrew. Act v, SC. I, 1. 22.
Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.
Cymbeline. Act ii, sc. 3, 1. 82. [Cloten] See
Venice. Act ii, SC. 7, 1. 54.
8
also GENTLEWOMAN.
:o] velfth Night, ii, 4, 88.
"Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
15
But to support him after.
Queen:
Did he receive you well?
h gems.-Sonnets, xxi.
Timon of Athens. Act i, SC. I, 1. 107. [Timon]
Rosencrantz: Most like a gentleman.
ichard III, i, 4, 29.
No meed, but he repays
Hamlet. Act iii, SC. I, 1. IO.
n.-Hamlet, iv, 7, 95.
Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him,
16
Now you speak
Intony and Cleopatra, iii,
But breeds the giver a return exceeding
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
All use of quittance.
Hamlet. Act iv, SC. 5, 1. 147. [King] "True
see Soldier: Officer
Timon of Athens. Act i, SC. I, 1. 288. [Sec-
gentleman" is repeated in The Winter's Tale,
ond Lord] "Seven-fold" (hyphenated) is
v, 2, 175.
IEROSITY
repeated in Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 14, 38.
An absolute gentleman, full of most excellent
See also under MEED.
differences, of very soft society and great
3ounty, Liberality
9
showing indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he
honour, yea, my life, be
By my troth, thou hast an open hand.
is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall
Twelfth Night. Act iv, SC. I, 1. 22. [Clown]
find in him the continent of what part a gentle-
See under HAND.
man would see.
inds Well. Act iv, sc. 2, 1. 52.
GENIUS, see Angel: Guardian Angel
Hamlet. Act v, SC. 2, 1. III. [Osric]
Fair gentleman.-As You Like It, i, 2, 260.
will, I will grant it.
Act iv, SC. I, 1. I13. [Rosa-
GENTLEMAN
Graceful gentleman.-Winter's Tale, v, I, 171.
10
Princely gentleman.-Richard II, ii, I, 175.
Is't not a handsome gentleman?
Prosperous gentleman.-Macbeth, i, 3, 73.
a further good
1. 83. [Diana]
All's Well that Ends Well. Act iii, SC. 5,
Renowned noble gentleman.-I Henry VI, iv,
4, 24.
ee. i, SC. 5, 1. 65. [Queen]
So please your majesty, my master hath been
Wise gentleman.-Much Ado about Nothing,
v, I, 166.
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
217
- after them
111 use you for my mirth, yea, for my laugh-
17 Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
with their bones.
Hamlet, I, i, 42
ter,
11112 Cuesar, III,
When you are waspish.
18 But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
Julius Caesar, IV, iii, 49
This bodes some strange eruption to our
wine
man;
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
state.
I, i, 68
winble men.
III,
88
For I am armed so strong in honesty
19
Whose sore task
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Does not divide the Sunday from the week.
cried, Caesar hath
Which I respect not.
IV, iii, 66
I,i,75
who of sterner stuff.
friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
20
This sweaty haste
III, ii, 97
But Brutus makes mine greater than they
Doth make the night joint-laborer with the
are.
IV, iii, 85
day.
I,i,77
new to brutish beasts,
reason.
All his faults observed,
21 In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
III, ii, IIO
Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
rote.
IV, iii, 96
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted
it Caesar might
dead
world; now lies he
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
I, i, II3
him reverence.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
22
The moist star
III, ii, 124
IV, iii, 217
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire
to shed them now.
stands
III, ii, 174
We must take the current when it serves,
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
Or lose our ventures.
IV, iii, 222
I, i, 118
mylous Casca made.
III, ii, 180
The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
23 And then it started like a guilty thing
And nature must obey necessity.¹
kindest cut of all.
Upon a fearful summons.
I, i, 148
IV, iii, 225
III, ii, 188
24 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn.
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
I, i, I50
And leave them honeyless.
V, i, 34
my countrymen;
25 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
of us fell down,
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
Hourished over us.
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
To his confine.
I, i, 153
III, ii, 194
It not, why then, this parting was well made.
26 It faded on the crowing of the cock.
V,i, 117
IIIV have, alas! I know
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
III, ii, 217
O! that a man might know
Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated,
The end of this day's business, ere it come.
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
away your hearts:
V, i, 123
And then, they say, no spirit can walk
111118 is;
abroad;
will. it plain blunt man.
() Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!
The nights are wholesome; then no planets
III, ii, 220
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our
strike,
swords
1. 10008 words, nor worth,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to
1.11, nor the power of
In our own proper entrails.
V, iii, 94
charm,
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
mily speak right on
V, iii, 99
I, i, 157
III, ii, 225
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
27 But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
V, v, 68
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
mant, that should move
I, i, 166
His life was gentle, and the elements
1.1 the and mutiny.
Somixed in him that Nature might stand up
28 The memory be green.⁴
I, ii, 2
III, ii, 232
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"2
29 With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
sicken and decay,
V, v, 73
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in mar-
riage,
memony. plain and simple faith
ir this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,
IV, ii, 20
And I am sick at heart.
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
I, ii, II
Hamlet [1600-1601], act I, SC. i, l. 8
IV, iii, 10
30 So much for him.
I, ii, 25
a mouse stirring. 3
I, i, IO
and bay the moon,
31 A little more than kin, and less than kind.
IV, iii, 27
Leonardo da Vinci, 152:11.
..... Hamlet, 218:16.
I, ii, 65
Clement Clarke Moore, 44⁶:3.
4See Thomas Moore, 446:8.
218
Shakespeare
Sha
1 Thou know'st 'tis common; all that live must
16 He was a man, take him for all in all,³
die,
I shall not look upon his like again.
Passing through nature to eternity.
Hamlet, I,
Of en
Hamlet, I, ii, 72
Bear
17 Season your admiration for a while.
Give
2 Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not
"seems."
1, ii, 19a
Take
"Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
18 In the dead vast and middle of the night.
Costl
Nor customary suits of solemn black.
But
I, ii, 76
19 Armed at points exactly, cap-a-pe.
For t
3 But I have that within which passeth show;
I, ii, 200
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
20
Distilled
Neith
I, ii, 85
Almost to jelly with the act of fear.
For 1
4
I,
And
To persever
ii,
204
This
In obstinate condolement is a course
21 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
And
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:
I,
ii,
231
Thou
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.
22 While one with moderate haste might tell a
I, ii, 92
hundred.
I, ii, 237
And
5 O! that this too too solid¹ flesh would melt,
23 Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;
Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
A sable silvered.
I, ii, 239
Unsi
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O
24 Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
God!
I, ii, 249
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Sprit
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
25
All is not well;
Whe
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I doubt some foul play.
I, ii,
Lend
6
Things rank and gross in nature
26
Foul deeds will rise,
Be
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to
I, ii, 136
men's eyes.
I, ii, 256
The
7 So excellent a king; that was, to this,
27 The chariest maid is prodigal enough
But
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
If she unmask her beauty to the moon;
And
That he might not beteem the winds of
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes;
More
heaven
The canker galls the infants of the spring
Visit her face too roughly.
I, ii, I39
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Ang
8
Why, she would hang on him,
Contagious blastments are most imminent
As if increase of appetite had grown
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Be t
By what it fed on.
I, ii, 143
Tho
9 Frailty, thy name is woman!
I, ii, 146
28 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
That
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
10 Like Niobe, all tears.
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Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
11 A beast, that wants discourse of reason.
Himself the primrose path of dalliance
That
Revi
I, ii, 150
treads.⁴
And recks not his own rede.⁵
I, iii, 47
Mak
12 It is not nor it cannot come to good.
I, ii, 158
29 Give thy thoughts no tongue.
I, iii, 59
So }
Wit
13 A truant disposition.
I, ii, 169
30 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption
14 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked
tried,
I do
meats
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
I, iii, 61
Would I had met my dearest foe² in heaven
³See Julius Caesar, 217:14.
Tha
Ere I had ever seen that day.
I, ii, 180
$See Bion, 92:7, and Macbeth, 238:2.
⁵Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive. By his clen-
15 In my mind's eye, Horatio.
I, ii, 185
nesse, how that his sheep shold live. CHAUCER, Canter
bury Tales [c. 1387], prologue, l. 5°4
Alternative readings are "sallied" and "sullied."
And may ye better reck the rede, Than ever did th'
2See Henry IV, Part I, 204:22.
adviser. BURNS, Epistle to a Young Friend [1786]
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HEADLINE: The Happy Endowment;
Humanities Agency's Birthday Gala and 'Civil War' Triumph
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
People just can't get the name straight. Some call it the Natural Endowment
for the Humanities. Or the National Endowment for the Amenities. Or they get it
confused with that other endowment.
For the record, it's the National Endowment for the Humanities - the quiet,
noncontroversial endowment - and it celebrated its 25th anniversary with a
black-tie pat on the back last night at the Willard Hotel. The event was also a
chance to show off the NEH's latest project, "The Civil War," a documentary
miniseries kicking off the Public Broadcasting Service's new season on Sunday.
Looks like it's already a hit. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
Colin Powell, who has seen the 11-hour program, said that director-producer
Ken Burns had mastered the art of federal funding.
"When someone has produced something as perfect as Mr. Burns has," said
Powell, "his work will protect him from any potential criticism or controversy."
Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president of WETA-TV, which co-produced the
program, gave a totally unbiased, objective reaction to the series: "It's
probably the best public television series produced in the United States."
"The NEH's involvement and the nurturing that WETA gave it over five years
could only come from institutions which are devoted to education," said
Rockefeller. "The federal government has to point toward what it believes is
important."
The superlatives were flowing thick and fast from last night's audience,
which included two stars of the series, narrators Jason Robards and Julie
Harris, 220 friends of NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney and Civil War buffs.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who happens to be married to the endowment
chairman, called the series "the best thing I've ever seen on the Civil War" but
declined to name his favorite general in the series. "I'd be reluctant to
endorse any one person of the period," he said. "Someone would run out and say,
'That's how Cheney thinks.' If
The audience also included Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner, Health and
Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos,
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Sens. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.); Jay
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Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the husband of the WETA executive; Chuck Robb (D-Va.);
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska); Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.); and Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.);
House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-I11.) (who had to leave before the creme
brulee to go back to the House floor for a vote on defense spending); and Rep.
Ralph Regula (R-Ohio), the only guy who showed up without a tuxedo.
"I didn't figure I had to have one if I've got the checkbook," he said with a
smile. He was right; there wasn't even a raised eyebrow -- Regula sits on the
House Appropriations subcommittee that approves annual funding for the NEH.
Unlike its beleaguered sister agency, the National Endowment for the Arts,
which funds publicly visible artists, performers and authors, the NEH gives
grants for academic research and programs. The Civil War miniseries is one of
the few projects funded by the endowment that is directly seen by the public.
"I think a fundamental difference is that we always know what the projects
are that we're funding," said Lynne Cheney. "I think it's more difficult for the
arts." She credited the grant process and her staff for the endowment's success.
"Many are academics who are remarkably concerned with detail. They pore over
grant applications with a great deal of care. It's an interesting place."
Cheney could afford to be modest. Everyone else was throwing bouquets in her
direction, including her husband ("I'm strictly here in a supporting role") and
Simpson.
"There's been a consistency of leadership there with Lynne Cheney," said
Simpson. "The NEA went through a period without a chief administrator and by the
time [Chairman] John Frohnmayer got here, all this stuff was festered up. Lynne
has been right there, hands on, with no gaps."
But in Washington, a little red, white and blue never hurts either.
The guests were treated to a lavish dinner, a moving preview of the show and
Julie Harris reciting the Gettysburg Address. The evening ended with "The Battle
Hymn of the Republic" sung by the U.S. Army Chorus and a preview edition of the
$ 50 companion book that each guest received courtesy of General Motors, which
also provided major funding for the project.
"Just so there's no misunderstanding: We didn't fund the Civil War," joked
General Motors Chairman Robert Stempel. "We funded a film about the Civil War."
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DEFENSE SECRETARY DICK CHENEY AND SEN. TED STEVENS. HARRY NALTCHAYAN
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SUBJECT: RECEPTIONS; OTHER SPECIAL DAYS
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
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April 6, 1989, Thursday, QUEENS EDITION
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LENGTH: 509 words
HEADLINE: Examining Heritage and Relationships
BYLINE: By Mary Helgeson
KEYWORD: QUEENS COLLEGE; HISTORY; RACE; ISSUE; ASIAN
BODY:
The staff of the Asian-American Center at Queens College, well into its
second year, is working on several projects that grapple with the complexity of
racial issues and the history of Asians in New York.
The center is a natural in a borough that is home to more than half the
600,000 Asians in the city. Queens College has nearly 2,000 Asian students. But
its projects are important to all New Yorkers because "the majority culture is
very much formed by minority cultures," said center Assistant Director John
Kuo Wei Tchen.
Center staffers take an unusually broad view geographically and look at the
story of Asian-American immigration patterns in all of North and South America.
The Asian-American Center starts with the assumption that people live in
multicultural, multiracial diversity and can only be understood in that context.
Understanding relationships among groups can be more important than just
studying the groups, said center Director Roger Sanjek.
Center staffers say they are committed to finding ways to interact with the
broader population, tending to to publish working papers for general
distribution rather than academic tomes.
For example, when Mina Choi was a senior at Benjamin Cardozo High School in
Bayside last year, her study of teachers' predictions about the academic ability
of students based only on photographs made the finalist group of the
Westinghouse science competition. The results showed a tendency to make
judgments on the basis of race.
This year the Asian-American Center will publish that study with two
commentaries, including one by Tchen, on public stereotypes of Asian students as
what he called the "model minority" - a stereotype of Asians as top science
students with hard-working, motivating parents.
The "model minority" perception can create resentment against all Asians and
problems for people who don't seem to measure up, and it is unfairly used to
compare other groups, Tchen said. Instead, there should be "a scholarship which
will not pit groups against each other, but will demonstrate how our diverse
experiences have interpenetrated, forming a far more complex and nuanced
multicultural history."
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Center staffer Lori Kitazono, a native New Yorker, said she grew up without
any sense of a Japanese-American community. That's not unusual, because people
leaving World War II internment camps were discouraged from going home and the
community scattered, she said.
"A sense of history should be a basic right everyone should have
we see
it as an empowering process" to give people information about their cultures and
communities, Tchen said.
A recent center project took advantage of a national traveling exhibit of
Japanese photographs. Kitazono put together a timeline marked with important
events for New Yorkers of Japanese descent - the first New York Buddhist temple
and the first Japanese restaurant.
People were asked to add photographs or names or dates they remember,
memories were sparked, and a history of the New York Japanese community is on
the way.
GRAPHIC: Newsday Photo by Richard Lee-Associate Director John Kuo Wei Tchen
and Director Roger Sanjek of the Asian-American Center.
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HEADLINE: Arts Beat;
Honoring Humanitarians
SERIES: Occasional
BYLINE: Dana Thomas, Special to The Washington Post
BODY:
National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Lynne Cheney was busy Thursday
making phone calls to five of the country's most respected historians and
humanitarians. The occasion was the announcement of the recipients of the
Charles Frankel Prize, annual awards for those who raise the public's awareness
and understanding of history and the humanities.
This year's winners are Winton Blount, the Alabama business leader and Folger
Shakespeare Library board member who built the Carolyn Blount Theatre, home of
the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; filmmaker Ken Burns, who produced last
year's critically acclaimed PBS miniseries "The Civil War"; humanities professor
Louise Cowan, co-founder of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture;
musician Karl Haas, voice of the syndicated "Adventures in Good Music" radio
show; and John Kuo Wei Tchen, co-founder of the Chinatown History Museum in New
York.
"These five distinguished individuals have enriched our national life by
sharing their understanding and appreciation of history, music and literature
with their fellow citizens," said Cheney in a statement.
The awards, each carrying a $ 5,000 stipend, commemorate Frankel -- a
Columbia University philosophy professor, assistant secretary of state for
educational and cultural affairs and first director of the National Humanities
Center -- who died in 1979.
Arts Advocate Appointment
National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (NCFE) has a new director: arts
activist David Mendoza, founding director of the Seattle-based Artist Trust.
Mendoza is leaving Artist Trust, a nonprofit arts advocacy organization he began
in 1986, to head the Washington-based NCFE, which promotes protection of
artists' rights on a national level. He will continue to make his home in
Seattle, however.
Among his first tasks as director will be to continue the battle with the
National Endowment for the Arts on behalf of performance artists Holly Hughes,
Tim Miller, Karen Finley and John Fleck, who last year were denied NEA grants
because of alleged indecency in their acts. NCFE initiated a lawsuit for the
artists against the NEA last August. Currently NCFE is working with the American
Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights on the case. It
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