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MEDFORD--More than 200 Tufts undergraduates yesterday continued their occupation of the university's main administration building, which they entered noon Wednesday to protest President Jean Mayer's decision to deny tenure to a popular junior faculty member. The number of protesters in and outside the building swelled to more than 500 during the day. Student representatives said yesterday evening that they would stay a second night, and until Mayer reversed his decision...
Seeking therapy for not desiring sex [April 4] is about as sensible as joining Nonalcoholics Anonymous or going into a drug nonabuse clinic. Why should a free person knock at the door of a cage and seek to enter it? Jean Harmon Silver Spring...
Value Line is expected to remain a family-dominated concern even after it goes public. Five relatives sit with Bernhard on the nine-member board. They include his wife, his son and his daughter Jean Buttner, who in January was named vice chairman. That move apparently vexed Dorothy Berry, Value Line's president since 1979, who is leaving the company next month. Bernhard will then assume the role of president in addition to his job as chairman...
...author gives excellent treatment to Tarnower's complex anti-Semitism. Alexander grounds her conclusions in a wealth of quotations. But attributing Harris's tragic end to the emotional frustration of "ladies of a particular northern upper-class WASP variety" becomes a kind of shorthand which hinders us from understanding Jean Harris's personality...
...book suffers most from Alexander's sheer inability to make us feel a fine-tuned understanding of Jean-Harris likes to analyze herself in terms of popular psychology. (Alexander notes that Harris was much influenced by Gail Sheehy's Passages). "Defying Dad was the main reason I married Jim," she says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial...