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...magazine tried to print two cartoons that the administration found objectionable. One depicted a prostitute with the caption "I got my job through the Brooklyn College Placement Office." The other showed a Greenwich Village cafe--identified by name--with a sign reading "No Men--No Women." Thomas E. Coulton, Dean of Student Life, chanced to see a copy of the issue before distribution. Acting under his "emergency powers," the Dean impounded Landscapes, calling the cartoons "salacious" and "libelous." The magazine was reprinted without the cartoons and distributed in that form...
...Archdiocese, charged that one story in the altered issue was anti-Catholic. Entitled "Last Rites," the story told of a young priest called upon to administer last rites to a beautiful young girl. The priest had a minor moment of weakness, and later felt great remorse and contrition. Dean Coulton came to the defense of the story, although he admitted that many of his Catholic colleagues and friends had been offended. He felt, however, that the whole happening was an "unfortunate incident...
...British Who's Who George Gordon Coulton cites as his hobby "vegetating." By profession he is a distinguished Cambridge historian, and in the last 15 years the body of his scholarly works on medieval life has sprouted as quietly and as fast as the vegetable he emulates in spare time. Last month was published a great comprehensive cabbage of a book called Medieval Panorama (Macmillan $4), a hybrid of all his previous works. It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate...
...Coulton says that he writes, and other people read, history because it is fascinating to see how it repeats itself with a difference - how man's never-changing nature reacts to his ever-changing environment. Some of the evidence for his theory: the description of how a fascist Church thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile...
...Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography (60 pp.) by his life-long friend, George Gordon Coulton, is a little British masterpiece, a Goodbye, Mr. Chips come true...