Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RACE RELATIONS has not been among the College's biggest successes over the past decade or so, so you have to give Dean of the College John b. Fox. Jr. '59 a certain amount of credit for taking on the controversial topic in his recently released annual report...
More important, Fox deserves credit for much of what is said in that report. The essays contains a thoughtful consideration of campus race relations, presenting several forthright conclusions. Perhaps most helpful is the careful distinction between the College's support of integration over as similation, and the frank admission that minorities are seriously underrepresented in teaching and advising positions...
Last spring, minority students went head to head with the College over whether or not to list minority orientation events on the freshman week calendar. The College considered the events "separatist;" the students did not. While Fox's report goes a long way toward clarifying the administration's guiding philosophy on racial issues, it fails to offer administrators a better means of hearing--and understanding--student views...
...cynicism at Cambridge from the narrator's sarcasm. Giles himself does not seem to have learned anything from his experience either. We long for anecdote, gasping with renewed interest when a crumb of plot is revealed. Wilson may have done this intentionally is make us feel how petty Giles Fox's life is. If so, the idea fails, because the result is overblown in its melodrama and moreover-tedious to read...
...from her father's musings is quite pathetic: it is not until we catch her pretending to be Virginia Woolf that we start chuckling at her. Her scenes with Piers Peverill, head boy at her uncles's boarding school, are delightful ("you were very good at kissing. Fox, but I really want to have it off with you as soon as possible"): Peverill, a charmer who gets away with every kind of mischief, neatly complements Tibba's seriousness...