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Faces
March
2002
For
nearly 20 years, Margaret
Holloway '80MFA has been known to campus denizens
as the "Shakespeare lady" who recites lines of Shakespeare or
Chaucer for spare change. Holloway's story has now been told
in a short documentary, "God Didn't Give Me A Week's Notice,"
which premiered at the York Square Cinema in December. Holloway
graduated from Bennington College and the Yale School of Drama
before falling victim to schizophrenia and becoming homeless.
The film was made by Richard Dailey, who knew Holloway at Bennington. |
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Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, came to
the Center for British Art in January for the opening of the
BAC's exhibition "Painted Ladies:
Women at the Court of Charles II." The ninth Earl Spencer
lent several paintings from Althorp, his family home, to the exhibit, which was first mounted at the National Portrait Gallery
in London. "This is pretty much the first time they've been
out of the house since the 1680s," said Spencer of the paintings. |
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Sopranos fans take note: Lorraine
Bracco, who plays mob boss Tony Soprano's psychiatrist
on the HBO television series, was given a Berkeley College paperweight
at a master's tea on January 29 and vowed to put it on Dr. Melfi's
desk in an upcoming episode. Bracco, who appeared with Sopranos producer Ilene Landres at the tea, warned students that acting
is a hard life. "If you're interested in anything else in life,"
she said, "don't take up acting." |
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Clarkson
University professor Christina
Hoff Sommers argued in favor of the resolution "Women's
studies is not a legitimate academic discipline" at a Yale Political
Union debate on January 28. "If you took 13 of these courses,
you'd have to be deprogrammed," said Sommers, referring to the
offerings in Yale's women's and gender studies program. Sommers
has criticized orthodox feminism in her books The War Against
Boys and Who Stole Feminism?, calling for "equality
feminism," rather than "victim feminism." |
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Among
the 18 members of the President's Council on Bioethics named
by George W. Bush in January
is Stephen Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at the Law School.
The Council is charged with exploring the ethics of human
cloning for making genetic replicas of people and for creating
potentially useful stem cells. Carter has written a number
of books on race, religion, and social issues. |
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Sterling Professor Emeritus
of English Louis
Martz, an expert on 17th-century poetry and a leader
of Yale's legendary postwar English department, died on December
18 at the age of 88. Martz earned his PhD at Yale in 1939
and joined the faculty that same year, teaching at Yale until
his retirement in 1984. Among his other academic projects,
he chaired the Yale
University Press's publication of The Complete Works
of St. Thomas More. He is survived by his wife, Barbara
Stuart, and five children. |
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Cyrus
Vance '39, '42LLB was the consummate negotiator, called
in by U.S. presidents to help resolve sticky issues. Vance, who
died on January 12 at the age of 84, represented president Lyndon
Johnson at the Paris Peace Talks in 1968, went to Detroit in 1967
when riots broke out there, and in that same year helped Greece
and Turkey avoid a war over Cyprus.
As secretary of the
Army under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and as president Jimmy Carter's secretary
of state, he epitomized the patrician, Ivy-bred public servant. A native of
West Virginia, Vance attended the Kent School, then came to Yale, where he played
hockey and was elected to Scroll and Key. After graduating from Yale College
and the Law School, he served in the Navy in World War II. When he wasn't in
government, he was an attorney with the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.
Vance was a fellow
of the Yale Corporation beginning in 1968. He was later named a successor trustee,
a post he held until 1987 (with a two-year interruption during his tenure as
secretary of state). He helped to found the School of Management, and he tried
unsuccessfully to convince the city of New Haven to allow the University to
build two new residential colleges in 1973.
It was as secretary
of state that Vance faced a moment of crisis, resigning over the
Carter administration's plan to rescue the American hostages in
Iran (which proved unsuccessful). 
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