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Yale's next president, Benno C. Schmidt Jr. is not only an expert on constitutional law, he also seems to be an expert on Woody Allen's sperm...
...Schmidt is determined to reserve time for his academic pursuits and spend much of his presidential energy redefining Yale's academic goals, which some critics feel have become blurred in recent years. He wants no admission policy changes that could subvert the progress Yale has made from being a refuge for old blue bloods to becoming an institution with a 17% minority representation among undergraduates. Another priority is the need to correct Yale's faculty balance of only 18.7% women and 7.8% minorities. Schmidt also is set on shoring up Yale's natural-science studies, along with a moribund engineering...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto...
...major figures in prewar expressionism--Kirchner, Kokoschka, Nolde, Schmidt-Rottluff --are here at full stretch, with works that have rarely or never been seen outside Germany. It would be hard, for instance, to find a better epitome of the expressionist vision of relationships between humans and nature than Kirchner's Striding into the Sea, 1912, with its naked lovers swept up in a kind of decorative pantheism, at one with the flouncing breakers and sharply writhing sand dunes of the Baltic shore...