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Included in the series will be Leonard Bernstein '39, 1973 Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer: Kingman Brewster: Heywood Hale Broun: William F. Buckley, Jr.: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson: Roy Jenkins: Gloria Steinem and John D. Rockefeller...
...first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl from Argentina who absolutely refused to "begin the beguine," and cursed people who "besought her to./ She cursed Cole Porter too." In A Bar on the Piccola Marina we meet the playful widow, Mrs. Wentworth Brewster, who was delighted when some young Italian sailors goosed her. And so it goes, all of it faintly scandalous, terribly urbane, romantic, fantastic and with a great to-do about not making a great to-do about...
...recent address to his freshman class entitled "The Decade of Short Cuts," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. cited three ways in which some students of the last decade sought to find exhilaration and inject zeal into under graduate life. One was the demand for "relevance," another was the glorification of the "happening" ("anything was good as long as it expressed the real, now self"), and the third was "trashing," an ugly resort to violence. Brewster concluded that despite a residue of change, some of it beneficial, these "patent medicines" bred disillusionment and fostered a cult of unreason. Such attitudes left...
...school year began, most college administrators faced the same budget problems as last year-or worse. At Yale, they had a surprise instead. Whereas a year ago the university had thought it would end the 1971-72 year $5.7 million in the red, President Kingman Brewster Jr. reported that the actual deficit was only about $1,000,000. Although alumni gifts and cost cutting could account for a portion of the difference, there also must have been a fairly stunning miscalculation, and Brewster ordered an investigation to find out what went wrong...
...more relaxed budget is welcome, of course, but as Brewster warned the Yale Corporation, "the surprising divergence of estimates and performance does pose a danger that no future forecast will be believed." Moreover, he said, such "skepticism and suspicion" about how accurate Yale is in forecasting its budgets might shake "the community's confidence in the credibility and competence of the administration...