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Some might take issue with Segal's evaluation. It is admittedly, biased and spiced with an implicit egotism. Does Segal deem himself one of those "thousand brightest"? No doubt he does, but his flagrant Harvardism has still another aspect. Segal loves and deeply misses the tolerance of idiosyncracy, of eccentricity, he found in his decade at Harvard. His theatrical endeavors were permitted, even encouraged at Harvard. On the other hand, the Yale community obviously brands such doings as the sign of one who is not "serious" about his academic profession. "I really bristle when I hear that adjective. I resent...
...years ago an equally flagrant expansion of the Asian war by the President precipitated widespread demonstrations. That outcry of protest was met with the same kind of brutal response that crystallized our forefathers' resentment against King George. Kent State was our Boston Massacre...
...Then came his super-bestseller, Love Story, which brought on such burdens as the latchkeys he said were thrust on him by airline hostesses. At Yale since 1964, an associate professor since 1968, Segal, 34, was up for tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt...
Peccadillos. In Congress, Powell's record of achievement-especially as Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee-was extraordinary, but his flagrant nepotism and cronyism, his public peccadillos, the charge of income tax evasion against him and his cavalier disregard for his Congressional colleagues' sensitivities finally led the House to exclude him by a vote of 307 to 116 in early 1967. He was also fined...
...also conceded that in practice there have been "flagrant abuses" of housing programs in ghetto areas of large cities. He blamed "speculators and fast-buck artists" but accepted some of the blame himself for the failure of the FHA, which his department supervises, to combat them. Said he: "I am angered and determined to eliminate incompetence, conflict of interest, favoritism, graft, bribes, fraud, shoddy workmanship and profiteering...