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Duty and Reverence. Hampshire is run by President Franklin Patterson, 54, a softspoken, firm-willed former director of Tufts University's Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Appointed four years before the first students arrived, Patterson had ample time to cull 50 faculty members from nearly 1,000 applicants and decide how to spend a $6,000,000 start-up gift from Harold F. Johnson, a publicity-shy New York lawyer and Amherst alumnus...
...league in runs batted in (118), hit 28 home runs, batted .317, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player. This season he hit .276 and led the Orioles in hits with 168. Asked how much of his ability with the glove is acquired, the softspoken, balding Robinson says: "Not a whole lot, really. I mean, what can I or anybody else tell a major leaguer about picking up a ground ball? You either...
...render and explore black experience to increasingly black audiences. In a sense, it has been a drama of exorcism, a casting out of white devils from black minds. LeRoi Jones' Dutchman is a prime example. A sexy, sassy white girl in a subway car flaunts herself before a softspoken, conservatively dressed black boy, goads him into venting his pent-up fury at whites, and then knifes him to death. Jones achieved his own symbolic revenge soon after in his play The Toilet where a group of black boys pummel a white boy to death and leave him with...
...Graham is an enthusiastic supporter of M-day. "Now I feel guilty for going over there," he says. "I feel ashamed." Solemn and softspoken, Graham traces his transformation to his experiences with South Vietnamese soldiers. For a time, he was in charge of ensuring that each of some 400 of them was properly paid; before that, the payroll had been given directly to a Vietnamese lieutenant and some of it seemed to go astray. He says Vietnamese officers often upbraided him in front of the troops he was advising. Some were so hostile that he became "more afraid...
Those anguished words were written by Nguyen Lau, a softspoken, London-educated Vietnamese journalist who until three months ago published Saigon's English-language Daily News. After the authorities discovered that he had discussed his views on peace with a Viet Cong agent, Lau was arrested. Last week, in a dimly lit Saigon courtroom, a military tribunal sentenced him to five years imprisonment for "actions detrimental to the national security...