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...Short story, "Sentimental Education", Harold Brodkey some of the reasons why Elgin Smith wanted to fall in love. On a warm September evening, standing on the steps of Widener Library, Elgin Smith "was thinking what it would be like to fall in love, worship a girl and put his life at her feet. He despised because he feared he was incapable of passion.... He was curses in English Literature, German Literature, in literature, in History--ancient and medieval, and every one of them was full of incidents that he thought mocked him, since they seemed to say that the meaning...
...course Boroff's comments neglect the personal agony of involvement, an agony which Jonathan Kozol in The Fume of Poppies, and Brodkey in "Sentimental Education", deal with at length...
...essay in this issue is a two-page item called Sex: the Literary Breakthrough at Harvard Square, which takes notice of the various Harvard love stories published recently by such writers as Harold Brodkey and Jonathan Kozol, and the similar but less facile pieces which, says the Advocate, comprise roughly one-third of all Harvard undergraduate writing. The informative section of this article is really quite interesting: one can hardly have missed making the connection between Brodkey's Sentimental Education, Kozol's novel and other similar work, but it is pleasant to see it done in print with some competent...
Duelling with sabres will be Pete Kenney, Johnny Steinberg, Charles Querfield, and Bill Moore. Mike Finklestein, Kilmer McCully, and Jerry Brodkey will be in the foil division, and Walton Rawls, Carter Pfaelzer, and Paul Forand in the epee...
...freshman sguad Johnny Steinberg, Charley Querfeld, Pete Kenney, and Bill Moore will fence sabre; Mike Finklestein, Ralph Johnson, Kilmer McCully, and Jerry Brodkey, foil; and Walton Rawis, Carter Pfaeizer, and Paul Forand, epee...