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In 1965 Congress had found and declared that “the encouragement and support of national progress in the humanities and the arts, while primarily a matter of private and local initiative, is also a matter of concern to the Federal Government.”l This was landmark legislation. Not since the American Revolution had there been so clear a public statement by any Congress of the need for government to foster the quality of life. Indeed, the legislation went further than the simple “pursuit of happiness” into the essential human need for aesthetic nourishment of the spirit.
What we were calling a culture boom in 1959 has become in 1976 a deep-rooted cultural growth that has yet to come to full flower. —John Canaday, The New York Times, August 8, 1976
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Taylor, F., Barresi, A.L. (1984). At the End of Ten Years. In: The Arts at a New Frontier. Nonprofit Management and Finance, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2731-8_6
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