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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expendable part of the Ec 10 material is the portion of the equity unit that deals with Professor of Philosophy John Rawls' conception of fairness, laid out in his book A Theory of Justice. In this unfortunate presentation of this material Ec 10 succeeds only in mauling Rawls and discrediting itself...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: A Perversion of Justice | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Eileen Simpson, Berryman's wife, agrees that the older generation of literary artists used their writing to help them survive their many difficult experiences. In her book, Poets in Their Youth, she writes that for her husband, "the only thing was to write poetry. All else was wasted time...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...book, The Burden of the Past, Porter University Professor Emeritus W.J. Bate '39 writes: "In this dilemma, the arts mirror the greatest single cultural problem we face, assuming that we physically survive: that is, how to use the heritage, when we know and admire so much about it, how to grow by means of it, how to acquire our own 'identities,' how to be ourselves...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

According to Eileen Simpson, poet John Berryman's widow, the seeds of the poets' destruction were sown early in their childhood. For example, Berryman's crippling emotional problems were caused in part by his difficult relationship with his mother, she writes in her book Poets in Their Youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Troubled Generation | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...example, when Berryman had finally completed a book about Hart Crane on which he had worked for a long time, he enjoyed only "one or two" days of relaxation on Cape Cod with his wife before he began to worry about how the book would be reviewed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Troubled Generation | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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