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White's difficulties began when he wrote a letter in May 1973 to Stewart Thau, associate professor of Philosophy and chairman of the department at Syarcuse. White charged that the graduate program had been "diluted" by other disciplines such as linguistics, that the students it admitted to the Ph.D. program were not qualified, and that the department did not teach philosophy...
...Thau wrote back to White, in late May "...I do not see how you could reconcile your opinions of our program with a decision to remain in it, except, perhaps for the expedient of taking a Master's degree...
...heavily enough to match the Federal Government's contributions to the program, and some, like Washington, D.C., simply ran out of money last year, leaving the poor as vulnerable as they were without the plan. Thus Medicaid, like welfare, is subject to local quirks and disparities. Ira Jay Thau, 23, a New Yorker whose existence depends upon regular kidney dialysis, cannot take a job without losing the Medicaid benefits that pay for his treatment. Says he: "If I try to be a useful member of society by getting a job, then I lose the only thing that keeps...
Susskind has flirted with Hollywood in the past, but he had insufficient power to make his presence felt. After fruitless chats with M-G-eminence Benny Thau, he came away saying: "The only thing we have in common is breathing." His current mission, as he sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...
...already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating out the final decisions and the finishing touches on the film-the anxious countdown before the launching of a star that shrewd little Benny Thau, an M-G-M production boss, expects to be "as big as Bergman...