Utley discusses Germany after elections
Garrick Utley, chair of the American
Council on Germany, will speak on "Germany After the
Elections" at 4:30 p.m. on November 17 in 1 Robertson
Hall.
Utley, a reporter and news analyst
for CNN since 1997, was previously with NBC News for 30
years. Early assignments took him to Brussels and then to
Saigon, where he covered the Vietnam war. He returned to New
York to anchor the "Vietnam Weekly Review" and to report on
the war for "Today. "
His lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School and the John Foster Dulles Program
Lecture Series.
Branch on race, American history
Taylor Branch will give a lecture on
"Cycles of Optimism and Despair: Race and American History"
at 4:30 p.m. on November 18 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Branch is the Pulitzer
Prize&endash;winning author of Parting the Waters:
America in the King Years, 1954-63, which also won the
1988 Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, among
other awards. It is the first volume of a planned trilogy on
the civil rights movement; the second, Pillar of Fire:
America in the King Years, 1963-65, was published
earlier this year. Both books are the basis of an ABC
eight-hour miniseries on the civil rights era to be
broadcast in January and February of 2000.
Branch's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School, where he earned his MPA in
1970.
Lecture talks of coincidences
Persi Diaconis will discuss
"Coincidences" at 8:00 p.m. on November 19 in Helm
Auditorium, McCosh 50.
Professor of statistics and
mathematics at Stanford University, Diaconis says, "A review
of early work by Freud and Jung demonstrates how
quantitative thinking can show things aren't so surprising
after all."
His talk is sponsored by the
University's Public Lecture Series.
Bowen will sign his new book
William Bowen, president of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation and former president of Princeton, will
discuss his recent book, The Shape of the River:
Long-Term Consequences of Consider-ing Race in College and
University Admissions, at 7:00 p.m. on November
19 at the University Store.
The book was written with former
president of Harvard University Derek Bok.
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 Intime
play
Dan Cryer '98 (l) as Tartuffe, Suzanne
Houston as Elmire and Todd Barry '00 as Orgon perform in
Theater Intime's production of Molière's Tartuffe at
8:00 p.m. November 19 to 21.
Cans from fans
The University and PNC Bank are
cosponsoring a food drive in conjunction with the Princeton
vs. Dartmouth football game on November 21. For more
information and a roster of collection sites, call
258-3204.
Friends present two song cycles
Tenor David Kellett and pianist Masako
Hayashi-Ebbesen will give a concert at 3:00 p.m. on
November 22 in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The program will consist of two song
cycles, Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, Opus 48m,
composed in 1840 to texts by Heine, and Fauré's La
Bonne Chanson, Opus 61, composed in 1891 to texts by
Verlaine. The two works, says Hayashi-Ebbesen "are true duo
repertory. The parts are so woven together that neither of
us can do anything without the other."
The concert is sponsored by the
Friends of Music.
 Brink
will read from his book
Novelist Andre Brink will give an Althea
Ward Clark W'21 reading from his work at 4:30 p.m. on
November 18 in Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, he will be
introduced by Michael Cadden, director of the Program in
Theater and Dance.
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