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...Corporation must also approve four Allston Burr Senior Tutors by the end of the year. Orlando Patterson, Senior Tutor in Leverett House, and Kevin O. Starr, Senior Tutor in Eliot House, both confirmed Thursday they would step down in June...
...Patterson's successor has not yet been named. The Corporation must also decide on the status of Kenneth M. Deitch '60, Senior Tutor in Mather House. Deitch's five-year appointment as assistant professor of Economics ended last year, and was not renewed...
...Shenandoah, the prose poems and sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions and out-of-print books have passed through the hands of less than two thousand readers...
Pittman's suggestion appealed to the Times's new editor, Eugene Patterson, who came to Florida last May. A Pulitzer prizewinning veteran of the Atlanta Constitution and the Washington Post, Patterson too was disenchanted with the detachment of traditional editorials. He had worked as a journalist during the Southern integration disputes of the 1960s. Of those days Patterson recalls: "I was constantly puzzled by my inability to make a rational argument heard. The reader tunes out what threatens him. You have to let him know you understand his position...
...that can be difficult. Pittman worries that the format could occasionally reinforce bigoted or lunatic-fringe positions by making them seem legitimate. Despite such reservations, the editors are convinced that the pro-con page is doing what an editorial page ought to do: inform and influence public debate. Says Patterson: "You disarm the reader. Communication is the art of getting what you say received, not just saying...