Word: martha
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...deeper understanding, we hope, was provided by Alwyn Lee, who wrote the cover story (Lee also happens to be a friend of Nolan's, a fellow Australian), and by Editor Jesse Birnbaum and Researcher Martha McDowell. To find out what young people these days think of poetry in general, we queried many TIME bureaus and campus correspondents. One of our stringers got into the spirit of things to the point of rewriting our query in verse form ("Poetry in an age of prose,/who knows how it survives?/Who can tell us why/it has so many lives?"). We appreciated...
Barnard College, the feminine affiliate of Manhattan's Columbia University, last week picked a former Kansas farm girl as its new president. Martha Elizabeth Peterson, 50, who has been successfully contending with the problem of 53,000 students on the 13 campuses of the University of Wisconsin as dean for student affairs, will turn her administrative talents to guiding the 1,800 Barnard girls next fall. She succeeds Rosemary Park, who is moving to U.C.L.A. to become vice chancellor for educational planning-and also to rejoin her husband, U.C.L.A. Greek Professor Milton Anastos...
...Fred Harrington's special assistant and university dean for student affairs in 1963. At Wisconsin, she is widely respected as a champion of student rights. "It's remarkable how we can discuss policy for the university and forget how that policy will affect students," Harrington notes, "but Martha never forgets...
...flexible administrator who contends that regulations must grow out of ever-changing situations, Martha Peterson applauds students who question policy-even some of those who engage in organized protest. But she draws the line when such activity "interferes with the rights of other students who want to continue with their work." The possibility that there might be more problems with marijuana, sex, and even miniskirts in Manhattan than in Madison does not frighten her. "I am sure that there always will be something unusual happening," she says. "I'd be disappointed if it didn't." As for miniskirts...
After a somewhat incongruous interlude-Martha Raye sang two songs from Hello, Dolly!-Westmoreland briefed the guests and alluded once more to antiwar protest back home. He quoted North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap's comment that the home-front controversy reflected widespread lack of support for the war in the U.S., then told the audience: "I defer to your judgment in this regard. It is the central consideration...