Word: dunham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of these statements-which no other liberal Russian writer has made -some specialists feel that the present assault on Evtushenko is an exercise in overkill. "Why pick on Evtushenko?" asks Wayne State University's Vera Dunham, a leading specialist in Russian poetry. "He has never done anyone any real harm. It would make more sense to denounce the men actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko...
...went there five years ago. And this situation is the same at other "pace-setting" schools. A few years ago, a new dean of admissions at Princeton changed the school's public-to-private school graduate ratio from 40-60 to 60-40. The new radicals there call themselves "Dunham's Children" after the admissions dean. Upperclassmen were calling them "lunchmeat"--a favorite Princeton expression. But the "lunchies" dominate Princeton now. And a tiny but active SDS chapter has been organizing sit-ins all year...
...ELMER DUNHAM...
DOUGLAS S. DUNHAM Willamette University Salem, Oregon...
...article deserves a long, thoughtful reply. There's no room here for that, but I'm afraid that it won't get one anywhere. Mr. Dunham is fighting a rear guard action, pecking at what has already been legislated or what some Establishment liberals have asked be legislated. The real action is elsewhere, in the seething ghettoes beyond legislation. It would be a shame, however, if no one bothered to leave the trenches long enough to argue with the New Right. Maybe, just maybe, this curious agreement about "individual dignity" could be expanded into a little, ad hoc Consensus...