Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the score tied 7-7 midway through the third period, Berezo intercepted a Tufts pass and returned it to the Jumbo 35-yard line. Moments later, Crimson quarterback Tim Davenport found his tight end Jim Cannon open in the end zone for a 14-yard scoring pass, giving Harvard its first lead...
...longest story, "The Dawn in Erewhon," the hero, a Dutch philosopher, Adriaan van Hovendaal, who apparently actually exists, says, "Man has a history rather than a nature." And this story is Davenport's most comprehensive attempt to present that idea. But here the author fails, partially because he gets too pedantic, in both his language and his ideas, and partially because he shifts from the present action to an excerpted translation of van Hovendaal's works on Samuel Butler's utopic Erewhon and his own concepts of Utopia which are rightly described as "some of the strangest in modern thought...
...most perplexing of Davenport's collection. It is a lot like The Turn of the Screw because you're never sure if you can trust the narrator who could be one of three different people, Davenport may be fooling everybody with this...
DESPITE THEIR underlying theme of "remembering," these stories don't come together into a unified reading experience; they don't make up a book. And that may be the most frustrating part about the whole endeavor. Davenport's sense of history is limited--sometimes so specialized as to be useless. Who, after all, would know what a young man described as a "redstone kouros from Sounion...translated into the slenderer grace of a modern gramivore" is unless he knew that the kouros was an idealized version of the male in ancient Greek sculpture practiced in Sounion and that a gramivore...
...Davenport believes that man has to be taught that history. "Otherwise," he says through van Hovendaal, "his nature is the same as an animal...