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1972-01-30 New York Times Magazine Article: ""Metamorphosis Of A Campus Radical"" Page 3

Metamorphosis of the Campus Radical
by John Leggett

IOWA CITY
I am a born, habitual New Yorker and nothing surprises me more than to be living in Iowa, unless it is that as a former Ivy Leaguer and editor, I am now a teacher at the University of Iowa. Iowa City is Grant Wood's town, surrounded by his cornfields and cluttered with the American-Gothic houses which the Eastern eye takes some months to find appealing.

On the street you see an occasional bonneted Amish woman, in town for a visit to the dentist, or an occasional farmer making a deposit at the bank, but most of the people who pass, and smile, are university students. There are 20,00 here, attractive kids, many of the girls fair and fine-featured with the Scandinavian look of their farming forebears. The boys are of course bearded and long-haired, and the fashions of the times, overalls, boots, gold-rimmed

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Metamorphosis of the Campus Radical by John Leggett IOWA CITY I am a born, habitual New Yorker and nothing surprises me more than to be living in Iowa, unless it is that as a former Ivy Leaguer and editor, I am now a teacher at the University of Iowa. Iowa City is Grant Wood's town, surrounded by his cornfields and cluttered with the American-Gothic houses which the Eastern eye takes some months to find appealing. On the street you see an occasional bonneted Amish woman, in town for a visit to the dentist, or an occasional farmer making a deposit at the bank, but most of the people who pass, and smile, are university students. There are 20,00 here, attractive kids, many of the girls fair and fine-featured with the Scandinavian look of their farming forebears. The boys are of course bearded and long-haired, and the fashions of the times, overalls, boots, gold-rimmed