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HARVARD SEEMS TO HOLD an odd fascination for Harper's. This month, the magazine has followed last year's much-vaunted "Harvard on the Way Down?" by Nelson Aldrich with an article on Radcliffe by Diana Trilling, called "Daughters of the Middle Class." Although the coincidence is probably accidental, Trilling's title underlines Harper's probable reasons for giving so much space to an institution whose internal evolution cannot concern a particularly large audience: Harper's is geared to the educated middle class of the Northeast, and its readers include enough alumni to make such articles profitable...
Excerpted from her forthcoming book--which received a fair amount of publicity last year when Little Brown refused to publish Trilling's charges against Lillian Hellman, forcing the author to seek another publisher--Trilling's essay is rather more thought-provoking than Aldrich's piece, which merely decried the decline of the Harvard tradition and the old-boy network. Trilling compares the Radcliffe undergraduates she met here in 1971, when she spent several months in Briggs Hall, to thz women she went to school with in the '20s, and concludes that, despite their obvious external differences, the two groups...
...Trilling points out, the educational system is perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than the stronghold of that upper class it served as in the '20s. As Aldrich pointed out in Harper's last Harvard overview, Harvard and Radcliffe now serve as steps to middle class status, rather than as the stomping grounds for those who already hold it. Nevertheless, Trilling argues convincingly that the dominant values at Harvard are those of the middle class, and if the admissions procedure...
...Steve Aldrich '78, a Harvard student and member of Science for the People, said yesterday. "It's interesting to note that the NAS conference is being sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, all of whom stand to profit immensely from the application of DNA recombinant techniques...
...Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor of thrills in all the low-caste genres, knows how to work this territory, nipping lightly on the nerve endings in the early going, then settling down for a protracted gnaw at them as the clocks tick toward the deadline set by the blackmailers...