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...FORBID SEGAL should ever leave New England or invent characters who didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Radcliffe or Vassar. Or characters who didn't grow up to be professors or lawyers or gallery owners or editors. Or characters who couldn't afford to rent a house for a month at the Cape or eat at Harvest ("the new restaurant behind the Brattle Theater...
...Spring at Vassar is traditionally lively," began the apologetic letter from Vassar President Virginia B. Smith to National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr. Lively was certainly one way to describe the campus hubbub Smith was describing. It had followed the choice of Buckley, husband and brother of Vassar alum nae, as the 116th commencement speaker...
Last week Buckley told Smith he would not appear and treated Vassar and the class of '80 to some vintage scorn. An American literature professor at the college, for instance, had decried Buckley's involvement in the McCarthy era thus: "It was Buckley who offered pridefully in those days the cast of mind and insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching...
...Marble Faun to Erich Segal's latest love story, Man, Woman and Child. As usual, Segal's principal characters are bright, attractive and preppie. Bob Beckwith, Yale '59, is an esteemed professor of statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife Sheila, Vassar '60, is a highly valued editor at a university press. The marriage is an ideal balance of temperaments, love, devotion, respect and affection. There are two blossoming daughters, a homestead in Lexington, Mass., and a summer place on Cape...
...talk show at KABC, Los Angeles. Over the next four hours, she will give on-the-spot advice to a stream of troubled callers-child abusers, rapists, baffled homosexuals, wife beaters and "pre-orgasmic" women. "It's a soap opera that educates," says Grant, 38, who studied at Vassar and Harvard and got a Ph.D. from Syracuse. It is also a vast financial success that has made Grant a well-paid star ("a median five-figure" salary) and draws an audience of 115,000 -enough to make KABC top-rated in her time slot among more than 70 stations...