Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MIMI KAPROLAT Berkeley, Calif...
ROBERT E. FITCH Berkeley, Calif...
...took on a difficult, decade-long task, the presidency of Alabama's Negro Talladega College, where he adroitly worked to heal local race relations, became a top white official of the N.A.A.C.P. In 1952, after serving as professor of Christian ethics at the Pacific School of Religion irr Berkeley, Calif., then as U.S. Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education, Gallagher took over City College. It was a bad moment: City was dishonored by one of the messier basketball-bribe scandals in sports history...
This is the agin' book of the season. Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of California's Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley, is agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett...
...beasts" who were moving away from objective naturalism-and with the cubists. The affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with ideas of his own. Over the next 45 years, teaching many thousands of students in Germany, at the University of California in Berkeley, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and in Cape Cod's Provincetown, he worked them...