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...April 1971, Yale President Kingman Brewster decided that Yale College badly needed "a coherant, purposive articulation of the goals of education at Yale." He asked Robert A. Dahl, a professor of Government, to chair a blue-ribbon committee of five faculty and administrators and produce "broad recommendations concerning the future of Yale College over the next 20 years...
...year later the Dahl report, a 117-page book filled with 60 recommendations about undergraduate education, was in the midst of being tabled by the Yale faculty. What happened between the christening and the collapse serves as a warning for others on the inherent dangers of giving committees broad mandates for educational reform. The failure of the Dahl report also points out the inherent logistics and timing problems in enterprises of this nature...
...White House or even in the United Nations. Similarly, if a group advances because its behavior and attitudes conform to social norms, it's difficult to explain the economic and political power of the Sicilian Mafiosi, who never went to college, joined the Rotary Club, or read Robert Dahl...
Identity problems also plague Patricia Neal's daughter Tessa Dahl, 18. When Tessa decided to act, Bette Davis told her, "If you do a nude scene, I shall never speak to you again." Tessa does not want to do a nude scene, but she would do almost anything for a break. She promises to be her mother's double: tall and graceful with the same wide face and wide-spaced eyes; she has the same seductive smile. The only thing missing is what Critic Kenneth Tynan called Pat Neal's "dark brown voice." Her father Roald Dahl...
Young Judy, by David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland...