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...Something About Students . . .," the first essay, section man Morton Levine complains that Harvard students are more concerned with originality than they are with scholarship. (If this be true, there are many, verily, hordes, who have wasted the best years of their lives in the stacks of Widener--studying.) In place of "an ethical commitment to thoroughness and an esthetic which values craftsmanship in research and writing" there exists "a straining for originality and chic...
Last month the work won the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the year's best play. MacLeish, former librarian of Congress, won Pulitzer prizes for poetry...
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...some of the most dreadful descriptions in recent fiction, the others go. Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...
...fondness for melodrama of an author still partly adolescent shows in All the Conspirators. Eleven years later, still moodily youthful but by then a seasoned novelist, Isherwood invented a foil for his loneliness-and created his best character-in the abundantly friendly Sally Bowles of Goodbye to Berlin...