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...completes its 359th graduation today. Nonetheless, as a proud son of Harvard (and a self-admitted editorialist), it is a duty of sorts to highlight the failings of an institution which can all-too-easily denigrate the very ideals it presumes to uphold. I'm reminded of the famous Edmund Burke quotation which adorns Harvard's favorite ultraconservative publication: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Well, I won't pretend that such hyperbolic rhetoric can be applied seriously to Harvard or that an editorial constitutes much more than "nothing." Nonetheless...
...Edmund A. Bojarski Rusk, Texas...
...SCOTT FITZGERALD HAD his prescient moments. In 1921 he wrote to Edmund Wilson, chiding his fellow Princetonian for excessive Anglophilia. "Culture follows money," Fitzgerald declared, predicting that New York City rather than London would soon become "the capital of culture." How right he was. Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, the Big Apple (yes, they called it that even then) emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature--practically everything, in fact, except politics. Then, as now, New York had the dubious honor of being the world...
...Martin Edmund's poems in The High Road to Taos invite comparison to the celebrated prehistoric paintings of the Lascaux caves in France. Both include images on a huge scale, natural subjects, an undercurrent of strange spirituality, But they also leave the viewer with the sensation that the scenes and emotions they illustrate have long been dry. The reader is forced to wonder, "Has the passion, like the paint, faded with time, or is the artist receiving too much credit...
MARY MCCARTHY MET HANNAH Arendt at a Manhattan bar in 1944. Wartime New York was jumping, especially for jazz musicians, black marketeers and left-wing intellectuals. McCarthy, then a 32-year-old short-story writer, reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death...