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...heroine is a pretty feminist who becomes a college president at 29-with her husband working for her as an administrator. No book or script yet, but if you check this month's Esquire, it's all right there in Nora Ephron's piece called "The Bennington Affair," a wicked cross between Updike's Couples and McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...
...probably remember that in 1972, Bennington College hired Gail Parker, an assistant professor of history and literature at Harvard, and her husband Tom (she at $22,500, he at $18,000) and then last January fired them. Ephron has filled in the details and provided a rare glimpse of the inner workings of a small elite college, with marvelous dialogue and excellent bit parts. As Ephron tells it, Bennington (600 students) is full of articulate, liberated eccentrics isolated in Vermont's Green Mountains. Sounds...
...mistake for us to take such a step. True, at least it's not Dartmouth we're talking about, but someday Marty Domres Jr. is going to come along, and we're going to wish we had the Terriers and the Redmen to fatten up on first. As J. Bennington Peers would agree, it's okay to lose to those teams because they're not really of any account...
...battle Martha Graham supposedly won--for the acceptance of dance as a legitimate art form by the American public. Colleges have played a big part in the fight, sheltering dancers when it was next to impossible for them to make a living otherwise. (The big summer dance festivals at Bennington and Connecticut College came into existence precisely because in the off-season dance companies had no other work.) Unlike the other performing arts, dance derives a good proportion of its creative vitality from the colleges...
...Bennington College in Vermont, Joseph S. Iseman, 59, a New York lawyer and member of the school's board of trustees, was named acting president to replace Gail Thain Parker, 33. Parker and her husband Thomas, 33, vice president of the college, had resigned after heavy pressure from the faculty. Only three years earlier, the couple had been welcomed to the campus as a young, innovative team. Since last fall, however, many faculty members had refused to work with President Parker, charging that she was uncommunicative and aloof. They were particularly aroused by a Parker report on the future...