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...most ambitious of the new reviews is New York City's [MORE],*a tabloid monthly that made its debut last June. Editor Richard Pollak, a former press writer for Newsweek, wrote in the first issue that [MORE] would cover the New York press "with the kind of tough-mindedness we think the press should, but seldom does, apply to its coverage of the world." Unlike the other reviews. [MORE] has tried to stake out a national constituency, since New York is the publishing center for the magazine industry...
...liberal position, of course, is that "no girl has ever been seduced by a book." That statement is erroneous, according to Poet-Librarian Felix Pollak-or at least he hopes it is: "For the saying doesn't do the cause of literature any good, or the intellectual cause in general. If one denies the power of the word to do evil, one denies the power of the word to do good. In effect, one denies the power of the word. I prefer the healthy fear and awe of the written and spoken word, evidenced by censorious zealots...
When Dean Louis Pollak of the Yale Law School announced last fall that he would resign to devote more time to teaching and family, possible successors eyed the job warily. At Yale, as at nearly every other top U.S. law school, black students and militant whites have beset the faculty with demands for liberalized admission standards, more student power and more "relevant" courses. The pressures for change at Yale, as elsewhere, weigh most heavily on the dean, a man traditionally selected more for his skills as a scholar and fundraiser than as a conciliator...
Last week, after a five-month search, Yale named Pollak's successor. He is Professor Abraham S. Goldstein, a 44-year-old former trial lawyer who has taught criminal law at Yale since 1956. Both as teacher and author, Goldstein ranks as one of the country's foremost authorities on criminal law and procedure. But Goldstein realizes that his task now reaches far beyond the perimeters of legal scholarship. He wants to reunite teachers and students into the kind of cohesive academic community that once helped make Yale the nation's most creative law school...
...bearish presence (6 ft., 210 lbs.) and avuncular manner shield a sternness that repels some students. He admits that he is not one "who wants to give everything the students ask for whenever they ask for it." Still, he has the overwhelming support of the faculty, including Pollak, who says that Goldstein is "one of the great men of American law." Another faculty member views him as "a big, strong, tough fellow who wants to do things, wants to move things." As dean, Goldstein will have ample opportunity to do just that...