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...success of the dance marathon is so important for us because it is a symbol of all that we've been working towards, that [student participation] has worked for now and it's going to keep working when we leave," said Dale Viola '83. Alan Khazei '83, former House committee chairman, and Viola say that student activity in their class began two years ago when the new sophomores, feeling they had been ruthlessly "Quadded," decided to let the rest of Harvard know that Currier is not a bad place to live. "We felt we were putting on a challenge," said...
...Chicago Biographer Alzina Stone Dale indicates in her spirited biography, Chesterton doted on paradox. The lover of tradition was a radical populist; the Falstaffian clown was a deeply committed intellectual; the friend of such freethinkers as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells converted to Roman Catholicism at 48, and thereafter engaged in eloquent public debates with his colleagues...
...died young, Chesterton contracted for more newspaper and magazine assignments than he could decently fulfill. But even a breakdown at age 40 could not slow him. In self-defense he lauded the ephemeral: "The daily paper is more important [than books] because citizenship must be more important than art, Dale praises this attitude; after all, "Wells, Shaw, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy-all saw themselves involved with and influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton's ideas were rooted in the past. He espoused "Distributism," a warm-hearted and thoroughly...
...down to dine/ 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' " When he spoke disdainfully about preferring "the Jew who is revolutionary to the Jew who is a plutocrat," the result was not so felicitous. Dale never averts her eye from these occasions, but she manages to find a rationale for every lapse, from deliberate naivete to the production of potboilers. Alas, there is something to be said for Ezra Pound's annoyance with Chesterton for "never taking a hedge straight . . . dodging behind clumsy...
According to Dale, Chesterton published 78 books. Not all are fine or triumphant, and far more than half are forgotten. But that is no reason for regret. As Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist and pop novelist, comments, "In Books in Print I found nine volumes of H.G. Wells and eleven volumes of G.B. Shaw ... for Chesterton the list goes up to more than thirty. With thirty volumes listed, who needs a 'revival'?" If one ever becomes necessary, The Outline of Sanity is the place to begin...