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Sterile Scholarship. A basic manifesto for the movement is a collection of eleven essays, The Dissenting Academy (Pantheon, $6.95), edited by Historian Theodore Roszak of California State College at Hayward. In the lead essay, Roszak contends that professors, pampered by their own rising affluence and coddled by Government grants, have let their research and teaching turn sterile. They gain no professional esteem from lively teaching, find no joy in pursuing a social cause, even lack loyalty to their own schools. Their main aim is to score points within their department or professional society. "Professional politicking and scholarly publication...
...essays are generally impressive. While Critic Richard Oilman deftly shoots down MacBird!, Historian Theodore Roszak wades into "The Complacencies of the Academy: 1967" with a spirited attack on today's professors for abnegating their traditional responsibility as philosophes. Instead of serving as the community's moral conscience, Roszak charges, most academics now function as multiversity service-station attendants, filling up students with credits and subjects, fretting about nothing more profound than their own tenure and sabbaticals...
...Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...
...special committee appointed by George V. Allen, director of the U.S. Information Agency: Franklin C. Watk.ins of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Henry Radford Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; and Sculptor Theodore Roszak of Sarah Lawrence College...
...jury considered 171 candidates, whose styles ranged from meticulous realism to slapdash expressionism, then placed its stamp of approval firmly on New York's avantgarde. The winners, chosen by Museum of Modern Art Collections Curator Dorothy C. Miller. Chicago-born Painter Arthur Osver and Manhattan Sculptor-Welder Theodore Roszak...