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...dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain-crippling phenylketonuria (PKU) in infants. Foundation grants have allowed Buffalo to snare Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby and Physicist Edward Teller as visiting professors. Critic Leslie Fiedler teaches in the English department. S.U.N.Y.'s only law school is at Buffalo...
Members of the Class will cross the river to the new Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts for cocktails and dinner Tuesday evening. Later, Arthur Fiedler will conduct the Boston Pops and Harvard Glee Club in a concert at Symphony Hall. A movie of the 1938 Henley Regatta will be shown at 11 p.m. at the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse, 'the Class' social center...
...What with the new concern about education, scholars and writers-in-residence are often community heroes; professors get the celebrity treatment on TV. The much-derided middlebrow culture in a sense serves the intellectual because its members look up to him. The ordinary man, suggests Critic Leslie Fiedler, "can now identify with the intellectual...
BACK TO CHINA, by Leslie Fiedler. The hero is a guilt collector who enmeshes himself in the misdeeds of others, while fastidiously ignoring his gaping lapses of conscience. A good satire on the portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-dirty-dog school...
Baro Finkelstone, the hero of Leslie Fiedler's latest novel, is a travesty of all the middle-aged Jewish liberals who ever lived in fiction. Pain is his pleasure. Having flagellated himself for Hiroshima, the plight of the Negro and the predicament of the American, he innocently demands: "Just tell me one thing I've done wrong." But in order to know that he is innocent, Finkelstone must suffer as though he were guilty, and Author Fiedler, who as a critic is the U.S.'s leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt...