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...fact of the matter is that the University is reaping the bitter fruit of its past negligence. Administrators may be sincere when they voice a commitment to vigorously deterring harassment and punishing actual transgressions, but such protestations cannot dispel the cynicism engendered by remarks from male professors ridiculing the idea of sexual harassment for example, a professor's remark, as reported in the survey that harassment was only the product of "feminine hysteria." Bold measures are needed to combat such myopia. Sadly enough, however, when hold measures were proposed this year--for instance to establish a central harassment office...
William G. Perry Jr., professor of education emeritus, wrote a very clever essay defining types of examsmanship. A student who has just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...
...realized the impact of this remark, he added, when he saw a campus movie advertisement reading: "You are here for four years. Dean Rosovsky is here for life. But diamonds are forever...
...remark aptly summarizes much of the poignancy, torment and humor that marked the 16 messy years of their relationship, years out of which Clyde Talmage has distilled a rather too neat but very lively play. Under the Ilex, at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, provides its only actors, Julie Harris and Leonard Frey, with roles rich in opportunities for virtuosity that they gratefully, even hungrily, exploit...
...even State Department officials who defend the Administration's overall position acknowledge that Washington has sent too many "mixed signals." Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Nestor Sanchez, for example, has stated repeatedly that the U.S.'s first priority is the protection of El Salvador against Communism, a remark that some Salvadorans have interpreted to mean that the Administration, feeling forced to pick between two evils, would tolerate death squads rather than see the country fall to the guerrillas...