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Harvard's chapter of the National Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Chi Epsilon, has elected Leonard Kopelman '63 of Leverett House and Brookline, its President...
...boring repetition. Nearly every episode in Catch-22 is told and retold. With each telling, some new detail, some further revelation is dangled like a carrot for the reader who reads on and on until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because...
...chapter on the University of Michigan graduate school, in which he concentrates on women, Boroff again paints a gloomy picture. He relates "the hideous portrait of the hungry female': around thirty, with a Ph.D. or close to it, and no husband. She throws parties to which she invites young men in the hope they will come alone... The hapless hostess...almost invariably 'ends up on the floor quite tight, snuggled up to one of these young...
Unfortunately, the author's remarks on agricultural inefficiency are not matched with an equally good chapter on industry but then this is outside of his field. On the other hand, he delves into several matters totally ignored by the writers. One such subject is the Baptist Church, now claiming some three million worshippers (the Orthodox Patriarchate estimates its own (membership) at between twenty-five and thirty million). According to Hindus, the Baptist faith has divested its followers of all the brutality indigenous to the old Russian peasantry and made of them the most temperate among men. Hindus explains this phenomenon...
...promote contact between highly intelligent people. The typical meeting in England take place in a restaurant of pub, and often includes the reading of a paper and discussion afterward. Frequently there is no planned program for a meeting, and talk will swirl freely over the beer bottles. The Mensa chapter from Leeds spent a recent weekend cooking and camping out in the Lake Country. But true to the spirit of Mensa, the outing took the form of a conference; and the theme, as their notice expressed it, "will be appropriate to the more or less primal scene in which...