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...couple of hundred Yale students sorrowfully demonstrated to mourn the loss of popular Philosophy Associate Professor Richard Bernstein (TIME, March 12) after the philosophy department reversed itself and voted 5-2 against recommending tenure for him. "We watched a number of good teachers getting the ax," explained Yale Daily News Chairman Howard Moffett. "After a while you feel that you have to say something." Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. effectively closed the Bernstein case when he returned from a Bahamas vacation and announced that he would not overrule the tenure committee's adverse decision. But he also praised...
...Second Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gary Graffman has never stopped reworking the ultraromantic piece and by now, as shown by this rich and seasoned performance, his formidable steel fingers are entirely in the service of the Russian's melancholy rhapsodies. With the New York Philharmonic, under Bernstein...
They held that Richard J. Bernstein, 32-year-old associate professor of philosophy, had been passed over for tenure despite exceptionally "creative" classroom teaching. The Tenure Appointments Committee refused to discuss its decision, but there were hints that it was not impressed by his book (A Study of Some Aspects of Education in Israel), his manuscript on John Dewey, and three chapters of a projected book on pragmatic and analytic philosophy...
...Bernstein's fellow philosophy professors had unanimously recommended him for a tenure vacancy, and Professor Paul Weiss called the committee's decision "stupid, unfair, dismaying." Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh pointed out that under the committee's criteria, "we could not have gotten tenure for Aristotle when he was 32, we could not have gotten it for Kant, and on a much homelier level, I could not have gotten it." After the wave of criticism, the committee decided to consider reopening the case...
Woodward also intends to recommend that the 1965 Senior Class Book, tentatively dedicated to Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., be dedicated to Sewall instead as an expression of discontent with the Bernstein tenure ruling...