Word: duskin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this might be tiresomely kookie, were it not for Alvin Duskin, 30, founder and chairman of the Board of Fellows (which he calls "a legal fiction for the benefit of the state"). Duskin looks and acts quite square. His face is scrubbed, his shoes polished, his tie neatly knotted. He has a wife, three children, a house with a maid. But if he is condescending toward "this beatnik thing," Duskin remains a freewheeling teacher...
...Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus...