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Harrison simply did not fit in at Harvard. He built a nine-year NBA career on toughness and a winning program while coach at Kenyon College on discipline and grueling workouts, but he could not transplant this attitude to Cambridge...
Doctorow's mother was a pianist and his father owned a record and musical-instrument store in Manhattan's Hippodrome Theater building-components of Ragtime's vanished New York. After graduating from the select Bronx High School of Science, he studied literature at Kenyon College in Ohio. It was the kind of education that sharpened his critical faculties at the expense of his creative talents. "I had to purge myself of the sense of the writer as an intellect," he recalls. The purge has worked. Ragtime is free of the self-consciousness of form that mars most...
...doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago and from 1960 to 1966 ran a series of wide-ranging political-science seminars at its Public Affairs Conference Center. Among the scholars, journalists, businessmen and politicians in sometime attendance were Congressmen Gerald Ford and Donald Rumsfeld. When Goldwin moved to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as an associate professor, he took the Conference Center with him. In 1969 he was made dean of St. John's and the next year spent his spare time teaching Plato's Republic to Congressmen and other notable Washingtonians, each of whom gave a lecture...
...Kentucky, as well as being an All-American at two different schools, earning the honor at Michigan State after World War II. The burly Brandies mentor played as a professional with the Celts in the early '50s before going on to spend 14 years as a coach at Norwich, Kenyon and now Brandeis...
...papers rather than the comics." Naturally, as a kid Cocks lived on a steady and omnivorous diet of films, but stopped short of skipping school to sit goggle-eyed before the big screen. "My parents were both educators, so hooky was out of the question." At Kenyon College in 1966, Cocks organized the campus' first film festival, then joined TIME...