Stewart R. Mott was a philanthropist whose gifts to progressive and sometimes offbeat causes were often upstaged by his eccentricities.
Mr. Mott, who listed himself as "philanthropist" in the Manhattan phone book, died at age 70 in June 2008.
His giving went toward causes like birth control, abortion rights, sex research, arms control, feminism, civil liberties, governmental reform, gay rights and research on extrasensory perception.
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I think you must have had an entire generation of rich dumbshites who never had to work to earn their keep.
I think you must have had an entire generation of rich dumbshites who never had to work to earn their keep.>
Fred, such idiocy is nothing new in America.
Pyotr Kropotkin was the toast of New York society in the 1890's -- in demand at all the salons of the wealthy.
And what was he doing there? Openly collecting funds for Nikolai Lenin and his Bolsheviks. The Astors and the Morgans, et al, contributed generously.
Stuart Mott and his ilk were merely his generation's spoiled rich kids.