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...BAXTER BERNSTEIN (239 pp.)-Stephen Seley-Scribner...
...Baxter, tingting, looked, tingting, at tingting, the tingting, clock, ting-ting." Random thoughts churned around in Baxter's stream of consciousness like rampaging underwear in an electric washing machine. "Goddamn you, Archibald Mac-Leish!" he thought: "And you, Dos Passes ... So Hitler must be stopped? . . . Oh, but-and-oh, but-what're yuh doin'? . . . Oh, the lousy lousy lousy LOUSY mess! Why isn't it 1922 instead of 1942? And I-twenty-two, walking through the Tuiler-o-o-o with a copy of Ulysses . . ." And where was Lisa, murmuring with her "pink-lipped, delible pout...
There is only one way to assure a solution of the problem. University administrators, from assistant deans and department chairmen up through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...
Concerning the recent episode, the editor also reported that 'the financial pressure (from alumni) which President Baxter opposes is more powerful than might seem at first glance. We are in the midst of a fund drive for $2,500,000 and having a hard time getting...
Although he expressed his disagreement with the review, Baxter defended Schuman then too, and, according to the editor of the college paper, Schuman received "overwhelming student report...