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...last of the oldtime scholar-presidents, though hardly a slouch at modern fund raising, Goheen is nearly a polar opposite of Yale's outspoken, well-publicized Kingman Brewster Jr. Nonetheless, Goheen's 14 years' experience as head of a great university seems unlikely to end with quiet retirement to a classics library. At his age, say Goheen watchers, his public life may have just begun...
...converged on New Haven last May loudly denounced the police contention that Bobby Seale as Panther chairman had ordered Rackey, a member of the New York Chapter, executed as a police informer. Also, these white supporters felt, like Yale's President Kingman Brewster, that it was impossible for a black revolutionary to get a fair trial anywhere in America...
...making something of a comeback. It is not a throwback to the silent '50s. As the demonstrations against the Laos invasion by South Vietnam forces last week showed, the students have by no means shed their deep concerns about the war?or poverty and the environment. Yale President Kingman Brewster calls the new mood an "eerie tranquillity...
...institutional failings of any kind can become the occasion for total refusal, so that whatever is solid and firm in our tradition is abandoned along with whatever is corrupt." Stating his apocalyptic vision at the start, Brustein uses it as the context for a criticism of everything from Kingman Brewster to the Living Theatre...
...entitled to 15 minutes of "meditation," followed by suspension. Most Americans cheered those words, but their tone caused Hesburgh much trouble. Hard-liners miscast him as their hero; many of the young reviled him. Yet now his image is quite different: he has emerged as a kind of Catholic Kingman Brewster who is so popular among his students that Notre Dame may well be among the nation's most disruption-proof major campuses...