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...thinking, a medical academician is also versatile. Plimpton, 53, can lace a speech with quotations from Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Baldwin and other famous non-doctors. Just after he took over Downstate, he participated in a five-day canoe trip in the waterways around New York City, battling the fringe winds and rain of tropical storm Doria and enjoying himself thoroughly. "Even if there were no human bodies broken loose from their concrete sinking blocks in the Gowanus Canal," he says with feigned disappointment. "Canoeing around Brooklyn opens up many new boundaries for head and heart. I recommend...
...play's delight lies in the parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
...down to dinner. In fine Britannic spirit, Sir John refused to rise until he had finished his meal 30 minutes later. Only then was he informed that the Kremlin had ordered four British diplomats and a businessman to leave the country. An additional nine diplomats, three businessmen and an academician who were not in the Soviet Union at the moment were declared persona non grata; some of them, in fact, had not been there for five years. For good measure, the Kremlin declared that the visit to Moscow of British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, scheduled for next spring...
Steiner is the second non-academician to be appointed a Harvard Housemaster. The first was F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '37, dean of Freshmen, who has been Master of Mather House since...
...track, two bony ringers stuck between fleshless lips to whistle an approaching train to its accident. Cliffs become gloomy torsos, a lobster floats in air. The images seem like snippets from a surrealist collage by Max Ernst. In fact, they filled the graphic work of a 19th century German academician named Max Klinger...