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While his father-in-law, William E. Stevenson, 61, a longtime president of Oberlin College, was slated for the prestigious, $27,500-a-year ambassadorship to the Philippines, New Jersey's lame-duck Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 53, was headed for New Frontier oblivion. Unsummoned to Washington despite the attempts of top New Jersey Democrats to land him a job with the Administration, the former Phillipsburg lawyer-who took a fatal hesitation step before jumping on the 1960 Kennedy bandwagon-announced that he would be returning to private practice. As Meyner himself once confided, "The Irish Mafia doesn...
David Dodds, the Angel Gabriel, sings his role with the purity of a Russell Oberlin. As Simeon, the prophet, Robert Patterson is forcefully apocalyptic; and as Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, Jenneke Barton is magnificently, overwhelmingly maternal...
This sort of supererogatory melodrama reached a peak of turgidity in Warren's worst novel, Band of Angels (Orville Prescott in the New York Times, 1955: "thoughtful reflections upon moral issues and psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when she hears that her plantation owner father has died. Back in Kentucky, to her horror and the reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha...
American men do not really want the world to be half female and half free. The passion, patience and intuition of loving women are obviously good for more than dishes and diapers. And since about 1833, when Oberlin College first gave "the misjudged and neglected sex all the instructive privileges which have hitherto unreasonably distinguished the leading sex from theirs," it has been taken for granted that most little girls are smarter than most little boys. Yet what has it got them...
...attitudes, customs, dress and manners, college girls, being natural conformists, tend to imitate one another on any one campus, but they vary from campus to campus. At some schools, girls never read the newspapers. At others, they walk around carrying the Manchester Guardian. At Oberlin, fully half the girls hope to serve overseas in some socially useful manner, from relief work to the Peace Corps. "Idealism is rampant here," says the dean of women...