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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...
...Putnam said he didn't know if the University would accept a work on the theme. "Of course the nature of the Segal work" led to its rejection, Putnam said, adding, "I think they might be worried about its effect on alumni funding and other things...
...York offer was withdrawn before any offical proposal was made to Harvard, Putnam said. He refused to estimate the value of the work, but said single Segal figures were selling for more than $50,000. The "Gay Liberation" piece, intended for outdoor display and made of white enamel and bronze, has four figures--a pair of men and a pair of women--and two park benches...
...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...
...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...