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Back in 1942, when Chicago's physicists were brewing atomic energy in the squash courts under the football stands, Chancellor Robert Hutchins and three top scholars proclaimed themselves "the Committee on Civilization" and set out to found a graduate program in "interrelation." Anthropologist Robert Redfield changed "Civilization" to "Social Thought," explaining: "I haven't the slightest idea what it means, but I think I can get it set up under that title...
Others include Mathematician Marshall Stone, son of the late Chief Justice, and Arabist Marshall Hodgson, author of The Assassins. James Redfield, son of the founder, is a classicist with a bent for cultural anthropology. Mircea Eliade is a professor of the history of religions, a Jungian psychologist, a novelist in Rumanian, and the envy of his students for being able to "drink whisky all night and never drop a line of conversation...
...survivors have done well. Bradley Patterson Jr., the first committee student, is now executive director of the Peace Corps. Most others teach, in fields from science history to political philosophy, at schools from M.I.T. to Cornell. On the committee itself are two alumni, Arabist Hodgson and Classicist Redfield...
...Didn't Say Yes, a Greenwich Village triangle, with Joan Hackett, Joan Caulfield, William Redfield and Peggy Cass, was praised by Boston Critic Elliot Norton as "the most promising new play on the summer theater circuit . . . idiotically funny." Top laurels went to Actress Joan Hackett, who, according to Norton, "takes the play away from most of the others most of the time and puts it in her pocket." Its present schedule calls for one-week stands at Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan, Me.; Philadelphia, and Latham...
...Didn't Say Yes is a tryout of Lonnie Coleman's comedy set in Greenwich Village, which has Joan Hackett caught in a triangle with her editor husband (William Redfield) and her novelist sister (Joan Caulfield). Mountainhome. Pa.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Laconia. N.H.; Falmouth. Mass.: Fitchburg. Mass...