Word: segal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trustee of the fund and a campus gay rights activist said yesterday they thought the University may have decided not to take the George Segal sculpture because it dealt with homosexuality; the head of the Fogg Museum and an alumnus involved in negotiations on the sculpture said Harvard refused the offer to avoid involvement in a New York City political squabble over the work...
...Lore Segal is responsible for fluent translations of such fairy tales. Her original composition shows how closely she has studied the source. In her folkloric The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck (Pantheon; $8.95), the protagonist is the kind of grandmother who makes worry a vocation. She finds trouble everywhere in and under the bed, around the house, in the yard, until she makes a life-altering discovery. The reason why trouble is so clinging and so dark is that it is a shadow closely resembling the klutzy figure of one Mrs. Brubeck. Marcia Sewall's illustrations provide precisely...
Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy League family. Their president gets attacked by Spiro Agnew. Their Classics Professor Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today (Jen...what would you say if I told you...I think...I'm in love with you." "I would say...you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists...
...CYNICAL here might take comfort in the knowledge that both Segal and Brewster were educated at Harvard, and that most of Reich's analysis is really Galbraith without the economics (a concept, admittedly, somemight find as ludicrous as Galbraith without the modesty). They can snort to each other--and rightly so--that each Brewster speech, each Segal movie, each Reich pronouncement, each flattering Israel Shenker Times profile is a triumph of style over content, content still residing somewhere north of the Charles. But it's a triumph nonetheless. And can we ignore it? More than we suspect, Harvard's future...
...team, when you get out there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of the Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness II.CrimsonNevin I. ShalltHENRY...