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Robert W. Dubois '77, a biochemistry concentrator, had mixed feelings about the first-day rush of which he was a part.
In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche duBois fishes around for some bourbon to kill her jitters and pulls up with a bottle labeled "Southern Cheer." "How can that be?" she quips under her breath. You said it, Blanche--Southern gloom is the Williams world view, and you...
Streetcar remains classic, not so much for the vehicles provided in Blanche and Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And...
The resolution also alleges that President Bok has "assailed" the DuBois Institute by not naming a black scholar to head it and "by not naming a single member of the national black community to the board."
Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha...