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Alan E. Heimert '49 had only been recentlytoiling away as a junior Faculty member and hadjust received tenure as the Cabot Professor ofAmerican Literature, along with taking the reinsof Eliot House in 1968 as its master. Heimertwould lead the Committee of Fifteen, anadministrative body which decided the fate of themost egregious offenders...
...Templar, conspiracy theorists have had a heyday describing just how Skull and Bones conceives of further plots to psychologicallycontrol and manipulate the human race. An essayfound on the Web about Skull and Bones begins:"Everything you wanted to know about Skull andBones but were afraid to ask: three threads ofAmerican social history--espionage, drug smugglingand secret societies--intertwine into one." Theessay explains the origins of Yale and Skull andBones, tying the latter institution to the CIA,the Kennedy assassination, opium trade with China,the Illuminati and Nazi Germany. WilliamHuntington Russell 33 founded Skull and BonesSociety, also supposedly called the Russell...
Following his reading, the Signet hosted adinner for Koch, toward the end of which he wasasked what he thought about the current state ofAmerican poetry. He seemed surprised by thequestion, and blinked in thought before answering."Well," he said finally. "I suppose Americanpoetry is right where it needs to be. I thinkAmerican poetry will be just fine." What acharming optimism--and whatever is true forAmerican poetry, it seems lucky to think that Kochmight just as well have been speaking for himself.Courtesy of KnopfOLD SCHOOL: Teacher-Poet KennethKoch...
...group has formulated a petition demandingthat Yale recognize it as a union. The petition'ssignatories so far comprise 400 faculty, includingseveral from Harvard. Professor of Afro-AmericanStudies Cornel R. West '74, Warren Professor ofAmerican Legal History Morton J. Horwitz,Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy and Professorof Law Roberto M. Unger are signatories, accordingto GESO...
These two new compilations by therecording industry's re-release standard-bearer,Rhino Records, offer up just what we have come toexpect from Rhino: intelligently structured andselected compilations that highlight an aspect ofAmerican music that has often not been addressedon its own. While the Rock InstrumentalClassics volumes are more satisfying than anyof the Billboard Pop Memories, both arestrong sets that will please anyone who wouldconsider buying them anyway...