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...which was exhibited in Holland (see color page) before opening last week at London's Tate Gallery, was aimed at giving Smith his first major international showing. Ironically, it is the one he never saw. In May 1965, while returning home from visiting an artist friend in Bennington, Vt., he drove off the road and was killed. But though his death at the age of 59 robbed him of accolades abroad, he had by his independence set the life style for a generation of admiring young artists, earned from critics a reputation as the most powerful new force...
Bernard Malamud, noted novelist and a member of the language and literature division of Bennington College has been appointed visiting professor for next year, Dean Ford announced yesterday...
...most ironic thing about the anthology is that the best selections were written by people you never heard of. Howard Nemerov '41, who teaches at Bennington, wrote genuinely evocative prose as an undergraduate; in "The Native in the World," he indulges in self-examination and self-pity which is utterly unsophisticated by most standards. His hero, John Bradshaw, has become a drug addict, sleeps 20 hours at one time, and is convinced that...
...year at Kalamazoo and Pomona and, beginning next fall, Amherst. Goddard's longstanding program of independent study for seniors has spread to 89% of the juniors, half of the sophomores. Extensive off-campus work and study have long made such schools as Antioch, Bard, Bennington and Beloit distinctive...
...London, Chairman of the Board Andrew Heiskell and a group of colleagues were hosts at a luncheon for 43 Americans currently at Oxford as Rhodes scholars. Heiskell, who is a member of the board of trustees of Bennington College, the University of Chicago and the Institute of International Education, among other educational posts, found himself a bit surprised by the occasion. What was to have been a midday meal and some exchange of ideas turned into a four-hour debating session. Most of the questions aimed at Heiskell involved the U.S. position in Viet Nam, and in part they reflected...