Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Applause of Juveniles. By contrast, Novelist Richard G. Stern frets at Chicago about the fact that "some faculty members consider me a bit of a sport-amusing, but not to be attended to too seriously." He sees a danger in the classroom, where the artist is "put in a position of power and becomes more quickly satisfied, going away delighted with the applause of juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about...
Passive Role. Colleges have conflicting ideas on what to do with the artist once they snare him. Some insist, as does Chicago, that he carry a full teaching load. "I don't know how much permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead...
...colleges consider outright patronage of the artist as their proper role, openly subsidize the artist's work. Of the relatively unknown but promising Niccolò Tucci, Columbia's Writing Program Chairman John Humphries explains: "It is not a question of what Mr. Tucci can do for us, but what we can do for Mr. Tucci." Wesleyan once discovered that an artist can be given too much freedom: one famed visitor spent his subsidized time preparing lecture notes for high-priced delivery at another university...
...ultimate value is the mingling of the professional artist, with his intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory. "It is so exciting," says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera...
...Same Goal. The mating of artist and academe may never be perfect. Cornell recently celebrated its centennial with a four-day exploration of "The Universities and the Arts" at Lincoln Center in which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement...