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...Harvard reference in the book??s title is supplemented by repeated ones throughout the book. John writes of missing the spring semester of his senior year and feeling nostalgic for the school he left prematurely to make his way in professional baseball. For in-the-know readers, his attempts to clue in the rest of his audience to campus mores are sure to provoke chuckles. On page 2, he writes, “There are a lot of collared shirts at Harvard. Some guys even wear pink ones,” and later, “Even kids...
Wolff’s apparent frustration with the Harvard coaching staff surfaces as another of the book??s motifs. During his entire collegiate career, according to the Crimson record books, he totaled just 17 official at-bats...
...Guarded): General risk of infection—put that itch cream back in the medicine cabinet where it belongs. If you’re feeling adventurous, crash a Union dorm party. Green (Low): No parties or mites to be found—unless someone slipped them in your LSAT book?...
...this, really, is the book??s serious failing. For no matter how piously Rorty professes his conversion, his mind is still steeped in the twentieth century analytic tradition in which nothing exists besides language, and everything else—God, the self, time, the world—is a diversion for undergraduates scratching their pimples...
...Stephen wanders along the beach in “Ulysses,” he asks himself, “What is the word known to all men?” To Rorty, the answer is that there is none. But the book??s theme, we know, answers the question for us. It is “love,” and it is both universal and contingent. Rorty’s book is an excellent analysis of literature as contingency, but he is still too much of an academic philosopher to understand the flip side of the literary...