Word: berkeleys
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...chops, vegetables and dessert-that when it was over and the table cleared, he began signaling indignantly to the waiter to demand: "When are we going to get our lunch?" He had only a minimal interest in food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired...
...notable yearning of today's college students is for broad courses that cut a swath across academic disciplines and focus on major social issues. One problem, however, is that there is rarely a niche for such freewheeling scholars in the modern, highly compartmentalized university. Berkeley Lecturer Ernest Becker, 42, who attracted overflow crowds into a 900-seat auditorium for a wide-ranging course embracing religion, anthropology and sociology, was reminded of that disturbing fact last month when Cal's anthropology department failed to rehire...
...Berkeley, students have a knack for getting what they want. And what they clearly want is Ernest Becker. Calling him a "stimulating" teacher, a "fantastic speaker," and a man who "makes you go out of his class thinking," several hundred of his students last week staged a two-hour "teach in" after one of his lectures. They also organized a march on the chancellor's office, presented a petition signed by 2,000 students demanding that Becker be retained. When the anthropology department faculty insisted that they had neither the necessary funds nor the staff allotment to keep Becker...
Although Becker defies pigeonholing, his scholarly credentials are impressive -and he is admired by many Berkeley professors. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Syracuse, served on the staff of the U.S. embassy in Paris, taught at the State University of New York for three years before moving to Berkeley in 1965. He has four books to his credit, including a study called The Revolution in Psychiatry that California Social Psychiatrist Martin Hoffman rates as "one of the most important theoretical works written in psychiatry in the last quarter-century." Becker has also written a primer...
Jerry A. Brinkman, whose elaborately elevatored glider (see diagram) lasted 9.4 seconds. Distance awards went to Berkeley Physicist Robert Meuser (89 ft.) and Stewart-Warner Corp. Engineer Louis W. Schultz, whose 11-in.-long delta wing, made of graph paper, flew 58 ft. 2 in. before skidding to a stop. Pioneer Naval Aviator Ralph S. Barnaby, 74, took the aerobatics prize with a stabilizer-equipped glider that gracefully floated through two complete outside loops. Brown University Anthropologist James Sakoda folded his way to the origami award; his swept-wing craft proved air-worthless, but the judges admired...