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...Kingman Brewster, President of Yale University, described last year's campus mood as one of "eerie tranquillity." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's annual report said that the number of campus demonstrations, logged chiefly from press reports, was down two thirds from the year before. Scores of other commentators, including TIME, concluded that at the very least the campus uproar that had culminated in the protests after the Kent and Jackson State shootings had given way to a new calm. Last week a report by the American Council on Education put that view up against the wall...
...exploding-because of a fly in the soup. Ionesco's black joke scarcely exaggerates the monstrous disproportion, the near pathology, of latter-day anger. If every period has its characteristic emotion, anger must surely be ours-the mask of cracked civility, the furious heart beneath. Yale President Kingman Brewster described the comparative calm of the American campus last winter as "eerie tranquillity," and the U.S. as a whole now seems to be enjoying relative quiet after the stormiest period of demonstrations, bombings and riots. That very calm gives us time to look back on anger. But eerie is nevertheless...
...Kingman Brewster Jr., L.H.D., president of Yale University. You have shared the deepest concerns of your students and faculty on social justice and world peace, and you have had the courage to express forcefully your own views while protecting with equal force the integrity of one of the nation's great centers of learning...
SOMETIMES they got responsiveness beyond their wildest dreams, most notably last May. Students announced a strike against Yale in support of the Black Panthers who were on trial in New Haven. Brewster announced he supported the strike. Or did he? At any rate, he didn't mind in the least if students and faculty members skipped classes. And Yale would supply food and lodging for all those coming down to support the Panthers. He never said, of course, that he supported the Panthers. He never said he didn't, either. He did say he doubted the ability of black revolutionaries...
...there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of that Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good of Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-work shirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...