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...making something of a comeback. It is not a throwback to the silent '50s. As the demonstrations against the Laos invasion by South Vietnam forces last week showed, the students have by no means shed their deep concerns about the war?or poverty and the environment. Yale President Kingman Brewster calls the new mood an "eerie tranquillity...
...institutional failings of any kind can become the occasion for total refusal, so that whatever is solid and firm in our tradition is abandoned along with whatever is corrupt." Stating his apocalyptic vision at the start, Brustein uses it as the context for a criticism of everything from Kingman Brewster to the Living Theatre...
...minutes of "meditation," followed by suspension. Most Americans cheered those words, but their tone caused Hesburgh much trouble. Hard-liners miscast him as their hero; many of the young reviled him. Yet now his image is quite different: he has emerged as a kind of Catholic Kingman Brewster who is so popular among his students that Notre Dame may well be among the nation's most disruption-proof major campuses...
PAYE's most energetic champions are Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. and M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, a fiery curriculum reformer. They and their supporters originally hoped that the scheme would help colleges to ease their financial squeeze by raising tuition. In turn, PAYE would help students raise the cash...
With typical caution, Bok asked for ten days to think it over, then phoned Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., once his favorite Harvard law professor and the man who later recruited Bok for the Harvard faculty. The two men and their wives met in New York City. Bok's fears that the job would be too wearing were eased by his discovery that the Brewsters "were quite exhilarated by what they do." On Christmas Eve, Burr again rode through a snowstorm, this time to hear Bok accept...