Word: berkeley
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Conflict arose last spring between Kaysen and several of the institute's most prominent professors over the appointment of Robert Bellah, a well-known Berkeley professor of the sociology of religion, to the social science school. Bellah eventually was offered the post, but declined it for both personal and professional reasons...
...preprofessional courses, while enrollments in the humanities continue to drop. Robert Sexton, an administrator of the University of Kentucky, says: "Today's students have lost the 'service' orientation that was generated in the early '60s and have turned to more self-interested goals." At the Berkeley campus of the University of California, Political Scientist Nelson Polsby finds students more realistic and less radicalized than they were five or ten years ago, but also less optimistic...
...unharmed. Last week one of the nation's most celebrated families, the Hearsts of California, continued trying desperately to deal with an altogether different abduction: perhaps the first political kidnaping in U.S. history. Members of the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army, who dragged 19-year-old Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment and flung her into the trunk of a getaway car, at first ordered her father Randolph to feed all the needy of California as a condition for her return. It was a demand that not even the Hearst millions could possibly meet...
...S.L.A.'s first communique, delivered by mail to an FM radio station in Berkeley, also contained a tape cassette on which Patricia had recorded a message to her parents beginning...
Nostalgic Pangs. The music album best opens the door to memory. How fine to have at hand the true tone of all those Busby Berkeley production numbers. No subsequent recordings of the songs quite recapture the tinny excitement of the original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems. But the record devoted to the work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors...