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...from 1876 (Random House, 364 pages, $10), Gore Vidal's new novel. In any other year but the Bicentennial, 1876 would merely be a bestseller. It was, after all, prompted by two earlier Vidal bestsellers: Washington, D.C. (1967), a study of mid-20th century political scrambling; and Burr (1973), a revisionist appraisal of the foundering fathers. "With 1876" says Vidal, "I've examined the dead center of the country, the year of the Centennial, and there's a nice symmetry, obviously, that it's coming out the year of the Bicentennial...
Parker, 32, is a former assistant professor of History and Literature at Harvard. In the summer of 1972, the trustees of Bennington named her president and her husband, Thomas D. Parker '64, former Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, vice president of the college...
...with the publication of a long critical letter in the latest New York Review of Books signed by four of his colleagues at Harvard and an hour of mostly hostile questions during a jammed Thursday afternoon talk at Burr Hall, Wilson is being forced to defend many of the conclusions he reached in Sociobiology...
Dershowitz told 40 people at Burr Hall that the United Nations is "institutionally incapable of providing ovenhandedness" in Middle East affairs, and whatever lawful authority the United Nations has is therefore a "force for evil" because it legitimates injustice toward Israel...
...Holyoke has much more sophisticated facilities than, for example, Burr Lecture...