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...minor roles, Jane Jackson as Argan's sinister wife and David Richardson, as the hopelessly inept Thomas Diafoirus, stand out. But many of the others don't quite know what to do with their roles. Jan Gough, as Angelique, is like a starry-eyed, dim-witted girl from Vassar. Burton Gaige, her lover, who wears a brown jacket, enormous gold pantaloons, and a long curly blond wig, looks more like the Cowardly Lion than Achilles. And Mike Kapetan, as Beralde, who should be the raisonneur of the play, is for some reason dressed in bright purple...
...faculty first approved under-graduate coeducation at Yale in 1962, after women graduate students had been admitted for several years. The administration considered establishing an independent coordinate college for women, similar to Radcliffe, two years ago. Later, Vassar was invited to consider affiliating with Yale, but its trustees declined to abandon Poughkeepsie for New Haven...
...superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...
Several other suitors were considered by Vassar. The selective all-girls school (enrollment 1,600) rebuffed a discreet pass from Princeton,* then flirted with a proposal to move to New Haven. Ultimately, the school decided not to give up its wooded 950-acre campus in Poughkeepsie...
...Next Vassar's trustees decided on creating a separate but coordinate mens college on the campus. When that kind of union seemed too slow and expensive Vassar changed its mind, decided to open an exchange program this winter with Williams, the little Ivy League all-male college (enrollment 1,230) in Williamstown, Mass. About 20 Vassar women will attend Williams, while a corresponding number of Williams men will move to Poughkeepsie. The exchange with Williams may be towed by similar ties with other men's colleges in order to see what adjustments Vassar must make to handle...