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...frustrated Egeberg conceded that he will soon be leaving his post for a less visible position on the HEW secretary's staff. The Nixon Administration's third choice for the position is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, 50, dean of New York State University Medical School at Stony Brook, Long Island, and not registered in either political party...
...yeargraduate student, contradicting Rosovsky's statement, said that the faculty did indeed have an anti-radical political bias. To support this he read parts of a letter of recommendation written by Professor Richard E. Caves to the department of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook about Herbert M. Cintis, then a graduate student...
...Bill Brook should return at number five, and Peter Briggs, number one on the squash team, seems to be the best among the sophomores competing for number...
...Midsummer Night's Dream raises one further question. Both Peter Brook and Jerzy Grotowski. the astringently rigorous Polish director to whom Brook is partially indebted, have repeatedly claimed that they want to restore the theater to actors and actresses. Yet the results of this director-actor axis have ironically proved the opposite. Actors under Brook and Grotowski express Brook and Grotowski, rather in the manner of orchestras under the batons of Toscanini or Koussevitzky. Their group efforts are mesmerically disciplined, but their individuality seems submerged...
...Perhaps Brook and Grotowski are caretakers of survival for an era in which drama is in abeyance or decline. Their productions are brilliant rockets that momentarily light up a dark creative sky that awaits the suns and moons of great and gifted playwrights...