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...time passes, all politicians (and generals) come to seem less important; what lasts is art. "Literature," said Ezra Pound, "is news that stays news." Many Americans can remember that Calvin Coolidge was the inconsequential President when Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, but as we look back, the political powers keep fading. What does anyone know about the petty princelings who ruled Germany in the time of Bach except that they were not very kind to Bach? What does anyone know about the Pope who built the Sistine Chapel except that he hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling? What does...
Both Wiesner and FitzGerald ran as part of the12-person official University-nominated slate forthe six spots that opened on the 30 member Boardthis year. Two other University-nominatedcandidates were elected. They are Sen. Albert Gore'69 (D-Tenn.) and former Federal Reserve Boardmember Andrew F. Brimmer...
Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...
Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64 and congressional committee counsel Consuela M. Washington ran on a pro-divestment slate and captured two of the six seats up for grabs. Two of the other winning candidates nominated by the University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frances FitzGerald '62 and former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37, have spoken out in favor of divestment publicly, while another elected Board member, Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) has vocally supported sanctions against South Africa...
...admirers crammed into the Second Avenue Theater to watch excerpts from his ebullient farces and to pay tribute to the artist whom Playwright William M. Hoffman called "the funniest man in America." Madeline Kahn recalled her college days with Ludlam. Joseph Papp and Geraldine Fitzgerald spoke of his prodigious energy. Finally, Everett Quinton -- Ludlam's colleague and for years his lover -- walked onstage to a standing ovation. Throughout the evening he had manfully cavorted through such roles as Flosshilde in Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, Alice in Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide and Lamia the Leopard Woman...