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University of Rhode IslandDigitalCommons@URIBerman, Ronald: News Articles (1976) Education: National Endowment for the Arts andHumanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996)1976Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976): NewsArticle 14James J. DoyleFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_11This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I(1973-1996) at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976) by an authorized administrator ofDigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@etal.uri.edu.Recommended CitationDoyle, James J., "Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976): News Article 14" (1976). Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976). Paper 25.http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_11/25-, -· . - . : ··..,-:--: ~ ... -

Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976): News Article 14

University of Rhode IslandDigitalCommons@URIBerman, Ronald: News Articles (1976) Education: National Endowment for the Arts andHumanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996)1976Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976): NewsArticle 33James DoyleFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_11This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I(1973-1996) at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976) by an authorized administrator ofDigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@etal.uri.edu.Recommended CitationDoyle, James, "Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976): News Article 33" (1976). Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976). Paper 4.http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_11/4"-.../ .·~.· •• , " . I··-=--..;_;··----~--·.· : - : ·t . ; ~ ~ -- . .. ... - . . - ... c · :-:.: i ·_ · ~ · : ; -~:<~ -· $FobibrlirrJOllrfuli~ . . .•- - ~---'·. :.- --~:,'.:' -~~.~~-;~· ~~·--:·.~_-:~·<-:-::_~.~~<~:.;~~- -;-<~ -.. _··~: ~,;·.~~-~:~4.-;~-.-~·~---~·,.:: ~~-: :·~·--~: • . ·. · __ · -~· .. ·,;:1 ··.c· .:· o.--: -,; .. _ r. -,_,-.A.·:: __ ~-.~- · · · .. _, ~ ·.:;::··: JUNE26, 1976 ·• t - -· : :"-- P~1rf ~i~~'.-f~:~~lit1~if~~NE~liiil~·:.': ·~ .• .. ~ ... _ . ~~ ... -~ -·-·-: ...•. : .... j ·:.:.. .. :-:-.... ~ ... ¥.!·;:.~..,·- _ . :·~~(~-.:;i~~J~~~;'!-"-!:~.?' .. :-~~~-.~~ ... ~--~-~~~~:~em: . .;;~·: ... ~:::~~·~~ : - •:... .. . ·. - .. , -... -. . - . Ju·m~~~ with. aspiratioris-:o( J:iistoriaf~~--.)~7~1~76 brochure" on~lts. prograrris', :fl>~~ ' · • • ·. h .. __ ,. ·· ... : ··. ·. _, ·'.~ .. ·y..,;.; .. ~·'1-'.J,.f~· ·~endowment itself had this to_ say:: .:.~:~'"'·~A James.Doyie<_~ ---; ri:-~~~~R-.~~~~c;~~i-~Y;iZti~~J"4{e1~~~ti~=;':~~~:~~r~~:. -,,_ ~;-_~ __ ._- , · . . :~:- ":_>.~ .: · ·• ~ · .... ·· for rebuttal. To- begin with, ·the _Rhode:·. of knowl~e that deals with -.vhat!t~bas_¥.: L r - Island committee nas not pciured its . been.....:and is-to be buman, to ma"ke-~e ~!'. ~- .._.. ·· allocations of _rederafcash into "prestigious~ judgments, and}o select the·.~ eour~~ ~ l- tN f:. . . 1975-J97ff. CONGRESSION~ iiuma'nities ·institutions." If .Mr, Pell had ' of action. This is achieved primarily_(c-t YEAR in which 1!J.~ultuous events ID - had the - Wit to•. ask, h·e could have through the 'examination of buman experi·)··-t Washington have bemuse.d and over· · discovered easily that 'his home state · ence and its implications· for the p~t .:~ .. 1 . · whelmed the nation, it has_ ~n in~vita~le committee has funded a wide variety of · arid! the future." That -:is the· goal.~('· · · · . that newsmen and agenaes ID that aty programs, some of them put together by national and Rhode ls}an~. c:ommittees -~ ~ ~- . · would overlook or miniinize th~ persistent scholars; all guided by scholars, and all · to aChieve. ~ :· - ~ :.;::.;.tj .. . . :;. <-:'!,I·~:::·.;·' effort of our' own. Sen. Claiborne Pell to:~· -aimedat'people.' ._;; -··:t-·~· :- c_ · ; •. _·--. · :_.~, ! q-. ;::.--;~:-~,:'::i :.-,-~_.:<:i{r.:ii:'~~~:::. politicize the National Endowment ~or ~e; · ·Grants have been'fuade to ethriic groups;. ·: ··FROM rr5 BEGINNING.ronsonant With.·: Hwnanitiesanditsaffi~a;:?Tg~tions:~."·., -su.cb _as -~P~ .. Ve~dean neighborhood·:-. the goalS ofthe_patiP.Qal.cildowment., the:·:. just about all the states..·-·~ {:_- .1 i '::;::-C;·,1_, • groups deterrnn~ed :_to develop ways and_::._. Rhode:lsland rommittee anil tbe'-conuriJt~·""· The Senate has defeated~~ f!f-the, -~ ·:,means. of uSing: the ·.bumaruties to. eniich: ·. ·· teesOf:ever)r "st.ate I have read of dedicated:::-· attempt by the senator to re-~~e:~;~ · · their'1ives, studies of su~ problems~ the--~~· the~es to tWin.ioals: ·pruaenc:t;.in ,t.be~-.,.- _, program of support "-. ~~- - \. ·/.!.. · ·effect of growth pressures: on land uses-· auth6nzation of the spending of federal.·. . of the humanities by . ~ , · ~: from Block _'Island to j.he /~udubon ~inf -_ cash; ~d dedication' to the· purpo5e' of/~ .. putting eo~tro! over. • .· }); . _sanctuary.-..::l~.:-:-:-\·· -:-.~,£:+--;':• ' .. -:".·i . makihgSiir~ th.a,t eyery~approved projeGt~-~-( . state agencies ID the . ".i .. ~ , \ ~'" . Nationally •.. the ~ndowment·, has ~up-:_. '· was organized."j:>laiine4 and directed., to-: -hands. of political· ·: •. "'-:--~:A: ·ported..-!iucb.'pro~ains as the writing· or-· involv~Jleopleineveiy,~alkof_life. :_;;-·_.:.. hacks and by de- • histories for each of the SO states; the .. · ~- t -!-. • . - ·<- < · . - · · · : -.. · · basing the function \: · underwriting of _~ch!)larly _ w_orks _andJilJDS: _ · ; 1f Sena~~ .Pel! succeeds m r~ctunng ~ of the national and N. \.- , ·...::·programs to strengthen th~ impact. 0~ , the e~doWf!!ent so ~ ~ politic1.ze ~te- ~ -state agencies. But • I~~ _ t~aching in the humanities grol!J> _projects . . agenoe.s or _1! be_ attains his e~d b)'_ ousting Mr. Pell continues to ~ , -~~ ·. · · for rese.arch in the humanities-~ of them ·- D~- Bennan 1~ favor ~f an executi".e who_. oppose the re- '~t<c '- summoning the best minds in~the country will ~r national policy_ along the lines he. apf(>intrnent of Dr. ~~~- to enliven the teaching of humanities and has la.id_ do~,. the~-\\-1th reluctance and ~ Ronald _Berm.an as '·l. _participation in them .. _ . - .-- .:. -: . _ regret>-=-! wi_ll. resign fro!11 the Rhode _ national chairman . . ·" . For the senator to say longingly that he ls!and Comnurtee, a_nd ~ think, Mr. Pell, 1 .. because be opposes·- J.; ___ . ··.c·. ·would like to see a grant of SJ,000 for _willnotherebeammontyo~one. the dilution of effort :: ':~·\;. .< .>>- _ .. mom and pop_ store operators .. to purstie a · . : Do .1 • eirt.o ;·tn Joumal-Mr. Pell wants. · - · ~ r: ~ · };' .. _ '.-::~: ·c· • latent interest m the Great Books leads me Jarr:es ._J.. :\ e IS 1 f' ~ _ e, ~ _. _ - -: - -. ~, i ~'!i'.'.'7 .,;_;. :,.. ' • - · ':. to doubt seriously that Mr. Pell knew what. Bulle~n edi~n~ ~e.s. .:::- -:?.:.:; -:--~ .:~:: . A BRIEF PERSONAL NOTE° is required. _ the humanities_wer~ all about back in 1~65 :.-:· _;-tL t_·~, ,> :.. ~It -was with great pleasure that I ac~pted · when be helped ~n passage of enabling . -; 1 _,._ - - ~ - -appointment to t11e Rhode Island Commit~~ . · legislation for the national af1:S and ~uman7.. ~} tee. Joi the Humanities when it~ }\"115. . ities foundations.:~-.. • :. · ':.::: .::~:-~~::'""'.·~~:-{ -~ -_.--organized in the winter of l 971-1972 under. · The Rhode Island rommitfee llas ·J>eeri '· the chairmanship of Judge Florence .K.- · patiently indefatigable ·in making certain ' Murray of the state's Superior Court. The that every project it approves in\'.olves the . suite rommiitee answers only to . the public or opens an opportunity for involve-, r.ationaJ agency in. the fixing of policies ment of the.. public-to encourage the -and in the granting of funds for programs. · -mom · apd pop . store operators .. " and· . : · Not once in the years since then .has . "lumberjacks" -:if there are any_in· Rhode_ .. · anyone in politics .in this state · wer: : .. !sland...:..to "'engage . a~vely ~ pro~rams ·· ·l approacbed me to .exert pressure for :or -~ mvolving Just abOu~ ev~ _ con~1vabl~ . ·-: against a project. To the best of my · aspect of the bumanities: · -~ _{' . : ._ . . ·- -knowledge, no other mel)'lber and the - · -·· - ' -· · . -. · , • · · · . committee as a whole ever t.i!.S had to fend IT APPEARS TO ME that the Pell .1 off politicians IOOking ·for favors for special ~ethod 1or disposing of the_ federal human- · interest groups. If _politics had been in- 1ties _money ~ould resuJ~ ID the was~ful I '\'Olved in the beginning, I would not have funding of pm·ate bobbies· from reading 1 accepted appointment. books by these mom and pop_ sto~e ! · · · -- · . operators to a study of the interrelationship · But Mr. Pell wants to effect chan~e µi of tree rings and the weather by a what he himself helped to set up as an lumberjack. Such programs undoubtedly inde]5endent fed er.ii. agency,. answering would be wildly popular and politically only to Congress and the \\.'hite House .. The fruitful. -ser.ator wants lo have the endowment set· The humanities program ·nationally and up state humanities a>uncils, on the order· locally have not been able to Compete with of arts councils with .members.:appointed the arts program for public attention for . i by ·state political officers, presumably •· the simple reason that such programs, 1 gon:rnors. H2d the senator succeeded. I l except for the artistS involved. require only J "U."OUld hue reslgned from the state > · ·spectator participation whether in watch-mmmittee. _ . . ... ing a federally:funde.d ballet or a theater .! uall;;) -ba~ d.. :, th. : li·tl .. '. -it · ·company perform. E~·ec:atching and news- • ; But eq !J. . as ; po OZIDg. f worthy.. -~:: lC : • .:·. · : · · ~ -Wms ~Irie. is the 5enator s thrust to ru;ute ~. But humanities _prog.--ams invoh-e bwr the ~tional-~ .5'..ate programs.. He thinks • dreds of men lllld. women in the ditricu~ tN!t if poliPcally_ ~nented couno1s are non-spectat.Or sp0rts of usin_g ·their min~ creat~ mcmey ~~ll ~It~ 1?eJond_ · the of engaging· in fni.itful -dialogue on public _. p!b'1.igious hµm;mitles _1nstifll!lons to the issues from prison J-e.fonn \0 downtown people who pa)~ the freigb! v.1th ~es; h,e renewal. and of relating them.selves and sees ~ atts . and the . humarutles as ·· their dreams lo the society in which they ~tentia1 a'·oc:ati0!15 for millions of newly llve.. The pay'Dff 15· tn lhe mind and the leisu..-ed Amcicans. , · .-" · heart:' · -4. · ' - • · -, · • • In a ~- in the last edition of ·the In the. Sunday J;u.~ Story. BarnabY Pro\"idf'na Sunday Journal, Mr. Pell is . _ Keeney, fonner president of Brown Uni-quoted Uke "this on the i~e: "Pell. . ve.rsity and the first chairman of the mea.nwh:ie. ~;:ks lo:igir:gly of the possi- • national endowment. was quoted .for his. "bility of d rant o~ ~J.000 lo some 'mom definition of just what the humanities are: and J'CP !'ll>n. ~~raturs" 10 ;:-ournJe a latent "'If you do it, ifs an an. If you study or i:-:te.-e.st ir: -...~.~ G~~ Books o~ S5:l0 to a learn or examine it, it"s c. humanity.~ In the -. ·-.... •, --··~~ .... - .,_( 

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