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...Clearly a labor of love, the book is carefully structured, with Southern's serious thoughts on literature, cinema, and drugs bracketing his work as a short-story craftsman, a critic, a New Journalist, and a writer of blissfully puerile "letters." The pieces were selected and edited by Nile Southern, writer and son of the Grand Guy, and Josh Alan Friedman, musician, author of the terrific "Tales of Times Square" and a series of venomously funny cartoons, and the son of brilliant novelist Bruce Jay Friedman...
...take our classes amid red brick buildings with crisp white trim, fountains, statues and lavish green lawns. This grandeur is not solely designed to impress potential donors. Rather, the loveliness of the campus mingles with and enhances learning—the reason that critic David Denby has argued that beautiful surroundings are vitally important for education. The columns of Widener bespeak a reverence for the books within; the gleaming tower of Memorial Hall is as eloquent a statement of the University’s values as any Commencement address (one reason undergraduates were short-sighted to complain about the tower?...
...what it all meant (and no, I didn’t get this off a fortune cookie): Follow your own path, no matter what people say. Sure, it’s a cliché, but for good reason. If you’re complacent, if you let your inner critic overwhelm you, then Harvard can pummel you into submission, into bidding for conformity. But who comes into college saying “I want to be a gov jock!” or “I want to be a Pearl Girl!”? If you can take...
It’s no secret why Harvard gets off on rejection. If that critic drives so many people here, pushing them to achieve, to get the highest grades, to be special, then it only makes sense that once we find ourselves in a position of “power” in the University, we take full advantage of the opportunity to tell someone else, “You’re not good enough...
...this light, the accusations of grade inflation by the faculty seem especially befuddling. If professors and TFs go out of their way to pat us on the back with higher marks, then Harvard would seem to be a place that works to assuage the inner critic, to bolster our fragile egos...