Word: robben
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Island is about two political prisoners in a cell on Robben Island, the infamous prison island off the coast of South Africa. John and Winston still try to maintain their dignity and humor despite the deadening fatigue and hard-labor in the quarry. The main action of the play is their effort to stage Sophocles's Antigone in the prison. Unexpectedly, John finds out he will be released in three months; Winston, in for life, is condemned to become one of the desiccated, withered shells of men they see working silently at the quarry. Their staging of Antigone shows...
...university is an open question. Since last fall, when Charles Hitch announced his plans to retire, the regents' search committee had culled a list of 260 names to find a new president. The choice finally narrowed down to Saxon, the candidate of the liberals and moderates, and Robben Fleming, president of the University of Michigan, who was backed by the conservatives. After several trips to California, Fleming withdrew from the running and the regents, with less than a solid vote of confidence, picked Saxon. On the final ballot 13 regents voted for Saxon, four abstained and six were absent...
...coffee with men, you go to meetings with men, but you never spend any time with women. You don't know anything about women! And that's the problem!" Thus an angry law student recently berated University of Michigan President Robben Fleming. Lest Fleming miss the point, a woman representing the "Ad Hoc Committee Concerned That President Fleming Does Not Meet with Women" sat outside the president's office for a week, earnestly recording the sex and other vital statistics of his predominantly male visitors...
...women's groups at the University of Michigan yesterday protested Michigan president Robben W. Fleming's appointment to a committee of five college presidents appointed by the American Council on Education...
...Robben W. Fleming, 54, president of the University of Michigan...