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Kalamazoo's plan is an ingenious answer to the economic problems faced by small colleges as enrollment explodes in the 1960's. "We cannot justify letting these facilities stand idle three months a year," says Princeton-educated President Weimer Hicks, 52. "Summer vacations are simply a throwback to the days of an agrarian society." Moreover, says Hicks, year-round college is sound academically: "Is it right for the minds of our students to lie idle three months a year...
...class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most respected in the U.S. He was a throwback to the old breed: the college president who pursued not only cash but also scholarship and public service...
Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide log rose up the chimney, removed all chance of a visit from Santa by setting fire to the wood-shingled roof. Before the Packards (plus some 40 volunteer firemen) quenched...
Giacomo Manzu, 50, is the great modern throwback to the Renaissance. Trained as an ornamental plasterer and raised among the Renaissance sculptures of his native Italy, Manzu loves the old. His famed Cardinals are still as shellfish in their enclosing robes and miters, but Manzu himself denies that they are conservative-he calls them "my abstractions...