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...last spring, the Foundation had reached the stage where almost no one publicly believed in its viability besides Gomes and Bok. The students who had sparked discussion about the project wanted no part of it. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, thought it unnecessary, saying the effort to improve race relations should be directed through the House system. Faculty conservatives thought it unwise, saying it might aggravate race relations...
...Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, also spoke at that meeting. Rather than address Wilson's main point about goals, Huggins suggested a different question: Should Harvard undertake a deliberate policy to attract minorities and women to its faculty? The key word, Huggins stressed, was "deliberate." He said the University should put forth that effort because it was the right thing to do and because it would improve the quality of the University...
...that part." She obtained a pirated copy of the script "through nefarious means," and, she continues, "I went to Pakula and threw myself on the ground. 'Please, God, let me do it,' I begged." Her own part secure, she urged that Actor Kevin Kline, 33, play opposite her as Nathan. ("The man's mad, he's brilliant.") Streep has the professional weight to do that now and make it stick, and Kline, who has been playing the pirate king in Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance, got the part. The Sophie-Nathan pairing should be a memorable collision...
...image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass., built a medieval French walled city. But not even the most formidable sculptures could long resist those twin nemeses, wind and tide...
...Faculty meeting. Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, said the University could best improve race relations through existing institutions, such as the Houses, rather than through a Foundation...