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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defining new procedures for handling discipline and demonstrations. Kirk has also called in a major Manhattan public relations agency to advise the university-a move that smacks more of image building than real change. His only concrete concession to reform so far has been the appointment of Associate English Professor Carl F. Hovde as new Dean of Columbia College. Hovde is an admirer of student activists and welcomes the fact that the spring rebellion shook the place up. Most students, he believes, only want "a university in which they can in every sense believe." Despite Hovde's appointment, even...
...phenomenon is attributable less to beauty than to size and price. With many foreign cars, of course, there is also the desire for prestige. Until now, the Big Three have been trying to fill the size and price specifications with their own foreign-built cars, notably Ford's English-made Cortina, Chrysler's made-in-France Simca, and G.M.'s German-made Opel, the next best-selling import after Volkswagen...
...morning-line odds are 99-1 against a young American writing a novel about contemporary Africa that is neither artistically pretentious nor piously angry, but just funny. Paul Theroux, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer now teaching English at Makerere University in Uganda, beats the odds. He has produced a satire out of very unlikely material: a Chinese grocer struggling for survival in a mythical East African country...
...smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention, he says, noting that "there's a lot of oil under Biafra," and that the oil might have something to do with English support for the Nigerians, and the French money and mercenaries aiding Biafra...
...updated and rewritten the 15th century morality play to make the allegory relevant and accessible to the audience of 1968. A tired and neurotic God often hidden behind an American flag looks down on an illusion-ridden, somewhat desperate, party below. He is flanked by Death, dressed as an English gentleman (or perhaps the perfect butler) on his right and the best blues band in Cambridge down-stage in front of him. Everyman, rich, irreligious, and self-satisfied, is approached by Death while making love to Beauty his mistress (Tommy Lee Jones rattles off his "Death, ye comest when...