Word: books
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After Columbia, there was a carnival of books and magazine articles published by various publishers on your basic student unrest problem. Most of these were written by academic types, and most of them are indicative of the depths to which scholarship has plunged. These academics were anxious to publish, as they usually are; their literary agents told them there was a good thing going here and they should not miss out on it. Very few of them had any new ideas, but that mattered little. There they were, with more words in print. Along with the carnival came a book...
What is most impressive about the book, magazine, or whatever is the range of its analysis. It shows how each and every Harvard department serves a corrupt establishment, from Fine Arts (". . . the art historian at Harvard for the most part is working for and with the ruling class--for those that have time to acquire their particular 'culture.'") to Literature ("Little attention is ever paid to the communal or 'folk' aspects of literature, or a 'pre-capitalist' literature which expresses the myths and values of a group."). Now, a great deal of this writing is remarkably puerile...
...report was submitted to the Senate yesterday, and will be published by Harper and Row and the New American Library, Chayes said. Kennedy is still considering Harper's request that he write an introduction to the book, Chayes said yesterday. "The question is does he help the cause by writing an introduction or not," he added...
...Birnbaum's own brand of ingenuity seems to lie with the quick double-entendre gag-vulgarity that goes against the grain of this particular musical. Just about everything the director does points at, rather than ignores, the show's leanly plotted and generally unfunny George's Abbott-Douglas Wallop book...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...