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...Bennett, then director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. But since December, Bennett, who holds degrees in law and philosophy from Harvard and the University of Texas and has taught at both institutions, has had a different perspective: he is the Reagan Administration's new NEH chairman...
Very quickly, under Bennett, the "fat boy" appears to have been put on a crash diet. From a fiscal 1981 allotment of $151 million, the NEH has been trimmed down to a proposed $96 million for fiscal...
...hardly complaining. "The budget proposed for '83," he says, "is a substantial amount of money. We can still do a large number of things." But in his four months in office, Bennett, 39, has aroused the suspicion of the arts and humanities constituencies around the country that the NEH will begin to reflect the partisan conservative attitudes of his political sponsors...
Last month Bennett provided worried onlookers with a crackling good controversy. He criticized the fact that an hour-long film, entitled From the Ashes... Nicaragua Today, had been partly funded by a routine grant of $45,623 from the NEH...
...fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White House, to say nothing of orders or directives, as to how best...