Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 628
How did you nurture that relationship?… Read More
How did you nurture that relationship?… Read More
Well, the useful ways, you make stories available to them, you will alert them to news events and they respond. Particular reporters may take a special interest. When I think of the reporter Marie Schumacher, who came to the zoo back in the 1950s, when Jim Oliver was director and… Read More
Did you have a good relationship with the press?… Read More
Wonderful. Really wonderful. I’m sorry. Read More
These are questions that, will be decided politically and because of that, the zoo must not be a political. And the zoo found itself in that when you said they had to close this building or that building because of budget issues. That’s right. There were some commercials done on… Read More
If we don’t feel we can provide adequate support for the zoo, what shall we do?… Read More
Should we have a zoo?… Read More
No. Should there be? Yes. Zoos should be considered above and beyond politics because unlike the other cultural institutions, lives are vulnerable there. Read More
If we can’t cat take care of the zoo, what will happen to the animals?… Read More
Did politics affect the zoo? Of course. Did we have to respond? Of course. Read More
Is there anything different about that as a zoo?… Read More
Yes, indeed. Read More
Did you have to take efforts to avoid that or?… Read More
I’m afraid the waves coming over such an island would be high, but in fact, we have done so at least in my day. In no way, did the zoo ever declare on behalf of any particular politician. We tried to treat all as well as we could. Read More
Did politics ever start to affect the operation of the zoo?… Read More
It’s sometimes been said that a zoo should be a neutral island in a political sea, Did you try and keep the Bronx Zoo and the others neutral islands?… Read More
Should the zoo be a neutral island in a sea of polity?… Read More
What role did politicians play in the success of the zoo?… Read More
The politicians have been exceptionally important to zoo because the city has a long contributed to both its operating and capital budgets, sometimes very generously. Almost every year, the city seems to be in some sort of financial trouble. Then the politicians that care in particular for a particular institutions… Read More
Did the Bronx community embraced the zoo as their own?… Read More