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Farnsworth was a major pioneer in university health programs. He was the first to recognize the need for mental health services among college students, and the first to institute a university health system that met the needs not only of students, but of faculty and staff as well. He introduced such a system first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947 (MIT), and later at Harvard, where he was UHS director from 1954to...
According to various feminists, the Meese commission report was good for the women's movement (Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon), bad for the movement (A.C.L.U. Attorney Nan Hunter) or basically irrelevant to feminist interests (Movement Pioneer Betty Friedan). "Today could be a turning point in women's rights," MacKinnon told a news conference in a cramped storefront near the Times Square porno district that serves as the offices of Women Against Pornography. "Women actually succeeded in convincing a national governmental body of a truth that women have long known: pornography harms women and children." Hunter tapped a different strand of feminist...
Many a Western legend was born over whisky and roulette at the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, who took part in the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral (just two blocks away), gambled there. Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson came for serious drinking, while upstairs Pioneer Surgeon George Goodfellow removed bullets from slow-moving cowboys. Despite harrowing moments and hard times, the saloon is still in business and is now up for sale. The asking price...
...cartoon-like directness: big mustache, Magic Marker eyebrows, oversize cigar. Yet few TV entertainers were a more intriguing set of contradictions than Ernie Kovacs. A boisterous cutup who relished tacky props and low-down slapstick, yet a closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David Letterman...
...excavation has provided ample proof of Kovacs' prodigious achievement. Not that all of it is funny. Much of Kovacs' comedy strikes a viewer today as rather obvious and crudely executed. Steve Allen, another pioneer of live TV comedy, was a more dexterous verbal wit; Sid Caesar a more inspired sketch comic. Kovacs' contribution lay elsewhere. No performer, for one thing, was more at ease in front of the TV camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation...