WHO USES ART?: Why Taxpayers Should Support The Arts
Michael Striaght
Monday, 23 Jan 1978 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Michael Straight studied at the London School of Economics, held the above positions eight years, 1969-1977. Editor of The New Republic, and the play, Carrington and A Very Small Remnant, and the play, Caravaggio. He wrote Fire by Television, a study of the McCarthy Hearings, and was a ghost writer for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Part of the National Affairs Series: Art in America Today - A Public Matter.
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