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Overt Hostility. The college's difficulties stem from both lack of leadership and the overt hostility of its New Hampshire neighbors, whose Yankee conservatism clashes with Franconia's avant-garde aims. Unintentionally, perhaps, the school quickly earned a reputation as a refuge for well-to-do but offbeat students (total yearly cost: $3,400). Last year more than one-third of Franconia's students were either transfers or dropouts from other colleges. Teachers in refuge from more orthodox corners of academe were attracted by the innovative spirit at an almost completely faculty-run school...
What presidential candidate insists that he keeps in trim by obeying his grandmother's injunction and eating cottage cheese laced with ketchup "until it runs out of my ears"? The answer can be found in this week's cover story. Such offbeat and often unexpected bits of information can be found in almost every section of the magazine, in almost every issue. A sampling from this week's stock...
...Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He is one of the guiding spirits of Pianist Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. An indefatigable organizer of concerts, he has created such benign features of New York City musical life as the free outdoor performances in Greenwich Village and the offbeat chamber series at Manhattan's New School. A restless exponent of widening the repertory, he once formed a Schneider String Quartet expressly to perform all 83 of Haydn's quartets. He has been musical godfather to numerous younger musicians, among them Pianist Peter Serkin, Violinist Jaime Laredo...
...impasse was born a new, freewheeling type of rock producer-usually as young and offbeat as the musicians themselves, steeped enough in the idiom to collaborate on songs, arrangements and electronic effects, and keenly attuned to "the street" (pop music's term for the fast-shifting mass market). Some of them went on record-company payrolls but most have remained independent, sometimes even wrapping up the complete record "package" before peddling it to the companies. Today roughly 70% of the releases that reach the bestseller charts are produced by the 100 or so independents now at work across...
...magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...