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Contents 2 Mueller on Dance: A Critic's Eye A political science professor has a special love for the art ofdance 7 The Voice Heard 'Round the World Correspondent Fred Cooper '71 on assignment for Voice ofAmerica 8 No Stranger in Paradise Dr. Milton Howell's 17 years in Hawaii 12 Fine Tuning TV for Children An alternative to the current video fare 16 Virginia Dwyer's View from Inside AT&T A visit with a top corporate executive 19 Hats Off to the People's Choice Chuck Mangione and his music have arrived 23 Coping with Anxiety A DR psychologist says behavior modification therapy works Departments 1 Letters 28 News Digest 39 Obituaries 1 Travel Corner 31 Alumnotes 40 Review Point 27 Identity Crisis 39 In Memoriam Cover photos by Chris T. Quillen Rochester Review. Summer 1979; Editor: Ronald C. Roberts; Assistant Editor: Raymond A. Martino; Copy Editor: Vera M. Wight; Art Director: Stephen Reynolds; Staff Photographer: Chris T. Quillen; Staff Writers: Gloria Peterson, Lee Krenis. Published quarterly by the University of Rochester and mailed to all alumni. Editorial office, 107 Administration Building, Rochester, N.Y. 14627. Second-class postage paid at Rochester, N.Y. 14692. USPS 715-360 , Letters To the editor: To the editor: notor cannot finance the repairs just to sell the I am somewhat concerned about the views Since I abandoned graduate studies and house. These houses were sold to speculators, ofDonald K. Hess (vice president for campus pursued a less intellectual career I have been who made just enough slipshod repairs to affairs) on the Age Discrimination Act noticing how much the realities viewed satisfy FHA-VA requirements and, apparently, Amendment that you condensed in the Re through academic analyses ofthe world differ to justify the inflated selling price compared view Point column of the Winter issue of the from the knowledge of that world learned in with the panicked purchase price or the out Rochester Review. the "trenches." standing principal on the mortgage left after Granted that Hess's views had to be cap I have noticed this gap again in George the default. sulized for the publication, and, therefore, Benston's debunking of redlining "myths" in Middle class-oriented buyers (defined by may suffer from being taken out of context. the Fall 1978 issue ofthe Review. their financial assets or abilities to do their own However, his views do contain some antedilu Redlining in my neighborhood (as well as renovation) for five years in my neighborhood vian notions which perpetuate faulty percep others) in the city of St. Louis has taken a either assumed existing mortgages, received tions ofthe old. Among Hess's misconceptions variety of forms, but they have all demon financing from the sellers, or were guided to a are his notions that first, faculty vitality in the strated that the gaping loophole in Mr. Ben revolving list of banks to be approved for a field ofideas is a function ofage; and, second, ston's analysis resides in the phrases: "And short-term (10 to 15 years) mortgage. Mort that the retention of older faculty will erode they simply ignore the special risks that are gages were awarded only after significant arm the foundations of universities by blocking associated with investment in some central twisting, moral suasion, and political pressure access ofyounger faculty. city areas," and "(We had to distinguish, were applied on behalfofqualified borrowers. For his first opinion, Mr. Hess overlooks the however, between terms that were really dis Applications went to banks, because savings fact that we do not develop instant senility at criminatory and terms that were legitimate and loan associations flatly refused to grant age 65. His position is just not borne out by any economic expressions of the greater risk asso loans in our neighborhood during this five ofthe recent studies onjob performance which ciated with a declining area)." (Emphasis year period. demonstrate that decline in performance supplied.) The reality of redlining is the conventional among older workers is a function of illness, Mortgages of some sort always were avail wisdom expressed in the phrases I quoted in not age. Intellectual performance is associated able here, but not the type of mortgages that the beginning. City neighborhoods were and with cohort membership and environmental allow the middle class to remain or buy into an are perceived as declining; prudent financing factors. Second, extending retirement age will area that has been blockbusted or that is agents were unwilling to gamble on people not block the entry of young faculty to a declining less dramatically. In our case, after who were willing to make a personal commit university. The largest openings at a university blockbusting, the real estate speculators fi ment to reversing the decline on a house-by now stem from ongoing turnover as younger nanced the mortgages for the families they house, then block-by-block, basis; and the faculty move to other educational institutions exploited in order to tum over housing every inability to get the financing for purchase and to continue their careers. In addition, it is one to two years via the default route. (Houses rehabilitation make a neighborhood's decline reasonable to estimate that some one-third of originally were bought by these speculators a self-fulfilling prophecy. In my neighbor faculty reaching age 65 prefer an earlier rather under panic conditions.) These mortgages hood, and some others, people were just more than later retirement. We can also expect about were not available to the middle class. FHA stubborn and more organized than most. But another third to retire before they reach 70 for VA mortgages are relatively useless to middle redlining is still with us in more insidious a number of reasons. class rehabilitators because these agencies forms, like inflated automobile liability (no Mr. Hess's views imply that the future ofthe always insist that certain repairs be made comprehensive) rates inthe city, and insistence university and the protection of its academic before closing can take place, by the selling on homeowners insurance written at replace and research foundations rest directly upon party, the very people (either panicked elderly ment value rather than at market value. young scholars. This carries the "Pepsi genera or about-to-default poorer people) who will Daniel Schesch '67 tion" a bit too far for me. St. Louis, Mo. Those of us associated with gerontology believe that the future ofAmerican institutions both academic and industrial will be strength ened when age as a determining factor for Travel Corner retirement is eliminated. Employing organiza tions will then have to substitute performance standards for continuing employment into the Last Call: AA-$1,799, A-$1,649, B-$1,549 per later years ofthe life span. When performance Danube-Black Sea-Istanbul person. (Single accommodations not standards are adopted by academic institu available; $500 less for third person in tions, then the young senile who make nega July 11-24 (Note changed dates) tive or no contributions to the university can Cruise the Danube from Passau (Ger cabin.) Group flight available from also be "retired" for the betterment of the many) to Izmail (U.S.S.R.) on a Russian Rochester to New York City. constituency ofthe university. Then tenure can ship, with visits to Durnstein, Vienna, Greece-October 14-22 return to its bulwark function of protecting academic freedom and not of supporting Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, and One week in Athens at the Royal Olym mediocrity. Bucharest. Then cross the Black Sea to pic Hotel. Breakfast and lunch or dinner Neal S. Bellos '48 Istanbul for two full days and nights. daily. Acropolis tour, Athens museum Syracuse, N. 'Y. Pan Am flights from New York City to tour, transfers, and baggage handling P.S. Enclosed is my check for a voluntary Munich and return from Istanbul. An included. Optional three-day cruise of subscrip~ion to the Review. I really enjoy this unusual tour program, with deluxe ac . GreekIsles. TIA charter from Rochester: window to the University of Rochester. commodations, complete guide and $599 + 15%. (Bellos is associate director and professor of social work at the All-University Gerontology escort services, meals (except for two For further information on alumni Center, Syracuse University.-Ed.) lunches and dinners in Istanbul), and all tours, contact John Braund, Alumni Of transfers included. All-inclusive prices fice, University of Rocheste~ Rochester, from New York City: cabin category N.Y 14627. Phone: (716) 275-3682. Mueller on Dance: ACritic's Eye By Lee Krenis One summer afternoon in 1967, political science professor John Mueller dropped by Saratoga for a Perfonnance ofthe New York City Ballet. Since then, the art ofdance has had a high profile at the Universi~ Mueller is now a well known dance critic, teaches dance history and appreciation, and directs the nationally known Dance Film Archive. 2 ., t's not at all difficult to find an intellec One reason is that good dance is hard dancers of this century apparently never I tual who is informed and opinionated to see except in a few major cities. "I've were captured on film. "We seem to have about literature, music, art, architecture, been to see ballet and I don't like it" is a no films of dancers such as Vaslav and film who is, at the same time, unable familiar complaint often based upon Nijinsky or Tamara Karsavina, and only even to name a single choreographer." local sampling ofinferior choreography, a controversial shred represents Isadora The words are those ofJohn Mueller, a says Mueller; this is equivalent, he be Duncan," he said. Moreover, he found, noted professor of political science who lieves, "to determining thatyou don'tlike "no major choreographer (except Fred also happens to be the director of the music after experiencing only the works Astaire) is exhaustively represented on University's Dance Film Archive, a non of Chelard, Meyerbeer, and Kalliwoda." available films in anything like the way profit organization devoted to increasing Mueller himself was a late convert to Beethoven and Brahms are on available the availability ofvaluable dance films.