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Critic Dwight Macdonald spent most of his time soliciting signatures on a petition proclaiming: "We share...
Lowell's dismay at our country's recent actions in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic." From the 400 guests, Macdonald got only seven signatures.* The others were either embarrassed or outraged. "Adolescent," snapped Author Ralph Ellison. Fumed Painter Peter Hurd: "It's just plain uncivilized." Macdonald was unintimidated. "I came here," he said, "to make trouble politically. I'm the bad fairy come to the christening...
...According to Macdonald: Sculptors Isamu Noguchi, Herbert Ferber and Peter Voulkos, Painter Willem de Kooning, Art News Executive Editor Thomas Hess, Brandeis University Museum Director Sam Hunter, and Library of Congress Poetry Consultant Reed Whittemore...
...football team's 9-6 loss to Princeton was regarded as a moral victory, but its 20-7 loss to Yale was a surprise, "We just didn't click," sighed Captain Torbert Macdonald...
...Macdonald, now a Congressman, was a class hero, but his roommate brought the Class of 1940 its deepest distinction. John F. Kennedy stayed out of politics as an undergraduate, but his honors then in--later expanded into the book Why England Slept--was highly political. Kennedy graduated cumlaude, at the time a feat accomplished by only 20 per cent of the Class