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...with students, faculty and alumni all vying for a major voice in the selection process. But when Princeton's Robert F. Goheen announced last March that he intended to step down after 15 years as president, there was no unseemly power struggle at the nation's fourth oldest university, either onstage or behind the scenes. As one senior wrote in the alumni magazine: "Students trust the administration to come up with a qualified appointee...
...incarnates the flame of truth and beauty invested in him by the playwright to be passed on to the audience. Thus one can say that Scofield is perfectly all right as Lear, that MacGowran is a good Fool and that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke of Gloucester, whose eyes are gouged out with stomach-churning realism. But the instantaneous afterthought is that though these actors have done absolutely superb work onstage, a filmgoer who sees only films would never guess it from this Lear...
...fresh support to one of their pet theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only 2500 B.C. But except for a few iconoclastic prehistorians like Britain's Colin Renfrew of Sheffield University, most archaeologists remained thoroughly convinced "diffusionists...
...atmosphere as cosmic rays bombard the earth from deep space and leave a trail of atomic debris. But as the number of puzzling carbon 14 dates increased, scientists at the universities of Arizona, Pennsylvania and California began testing Libby's assumption by turning to some of the oldest living things on earth-California's bristlecone pine and sequoia trees, which have been growing for as long as 4,000 years. By carefully analyzing the carbon 14 content in the annual growth rings of the trees, they found that there have, in fact, been small but significant changes...
Harvard freshmen coach Dana Getchell attended the meeting of the League, the oldest and largest soccer association in the country, at Springfield College on Sunday. Getchell, a former League secretary, accepted Harvard's first-place trophy, the third consecutive such award for the Crimson varsity...