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...Solzhenitsyn, waving a flag of traditional Christian values over the atheist Soviet state. His dissatisfaction with Soviet life comes across less as an ideological jihad than as truculent skirmishing. In some ways, it's more effective for just that reason--we know Voinovich has neither icon to worship nor axe to grind...
...academic axe that claimed Buckley and Cuccia, and the untimely injuries that have removed St. John and Buchanan (one in each of the last two games) have left Mike Smerczynski on top of the heap--at least for the moment...
...balancing the Faculty's budget, are not the only money-saving measures introduced in the past few years. Rosovsky has insisted that no department has suffered a reduction in size, but for several years before 1977 the rate of hiring new senior professors slowed down--no appointments got the axe, but some were delayed. Recent budgets have also skimped on some building maintenance...
...where many critics say Wagner's inspiration failed him--Sellars falters too. Splicing in whole minutes of Kurt Weill music to back up the leather-jacketed, bar-stool Gibichungs may be a justified comment on their theatrical value in Wagner's original scheme. It also, however, shatters with an axe-stroke of cynicism the mood of benign humor that prevails until them. The musical effect is appalling, the lapse in taste alarming...
Class Reunion is not the worst of the recent books on Harvard. Unlike Enrique Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, Jaffe has no axe to grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more smoothly than The Mem Hall Murders. In the end Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell...