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...addition to his mail-order work (that's what he does all day,, when he's sitting at that desk), Mr. Starr does a thriving off-the-street business. That accounts for about half his sales, he estimates. For forty years Harvard students have bought his books. Bate, Alfred, Perry Miller--they were all his customers as undergraduates. He remarks that students used to buy more books than they do now-- "not what they needed in their courses, just what they wanted to own." He gets a lot of outsiders, too, many of them attracted by the unusual building. During...
Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, yesterday termed the interest in Ellmann "premature" but acknowledged that discussions about an appointment had taken place. He said that he expected further details "in a few months...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33 (General Nonfiction 1963--The Guns of August and 1972--Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 came through Radcliffe at a time when women weren't allowed on The Crimson A alter J. Bate'39. Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the Humanities, who won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1964 (John Keats) was too busy studying undergraduate to comp for The Crimson. And obviously with a certain amount of snobbery, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, didn't bother to comp...
THOUGH THE PAST DECADE and a half has not been distinguished by pioneer literary criticism, it was certainly an age of great literary biographies. A few primary examples come to mind: Richard Elimann's biography of James Joyce (1959). W.J. Bate's of John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally...
ALTHOUGH JOSEPHS steals the show when he enters in the middle of the first act, several other members of the cast do fine jobs. Ellen Olian-Bate as the aging but still passionate Marchioness of Tuscany was probably the most professional. William Fuller delivered his lines too quickly and mechanically at first but later did very well as the ridiculous Doctor Genoni. Henry's councillors Robert Hershman, Brian Powers and John Rudman seemed to capture the foolishness of their roles...