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Student Activist. Tigar grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a machinists' union official whose schooling ended in the eighth grade. One of Berkeley's first student activists in the early 1960s, he protested ROTC, favored the Cuban Revolution and demonstrated against the House Un-American Activities Committee. For his efforts, Tigar was investigated by the California legislature's HUAC equivalent. California conservatives and their congressional allies were so disturbed by his activities that they pressured Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. to withdraw his offer of a clerkship for Tigar, who had graduated...
...champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and Renoir; he is generally concerned with instituting fashion according to his own "impassioned" integrity rather than merely following the fashionable (though his recent 2001 recantation was curious indeed). With such developments as his labeling of Fellini as the "Busby Berkeley of metaphysics," and a latent inclination towards admirable historical research and social criticism, he seems to be mellowing into adult responsibilities. However, Confessions of a Cultist, containing reviews written between 1955 and 1969, displays the attitudes of the man as he has come to be known and cherished by thousands...
...many ways, Rosovsky's last years in academia seem like a constant flight to the academic higher ground. He left Berkeley for Harvard in '65 because, he said, the continual student unrest interfered with his academic work...
...does not have a great deal of fund-raising experience, but has been chairman of the Berkeley Center for Japanese and Korean studies and is currently associate director of the East Asian Research Center. He remains active on Faculty committees and is considered one of the leaders of the old conservative caucus...
Although his Batavia colleague, Edwin Goldwasser, is closer to the optimal age. Wilson is a more widely recognized research physicist in large nuclear projects. He graduated from Univ. of California-Berkeley in 1936, did four years of graduate work there under Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest Lawrence, then moved to Princeton where he became an assistant professor...