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Harvard didn't flinch. On July 29, "the first modern guerrilla warfare unit ever organized in the United States" held its first meeting in Emerson Hall. 175 sneaky undergraduates put their sangfroid on the line and joined the group, which announced it would emulate the tactics of Colonel Lawrence of Arabia. Four athletic credits were promised all participants...
Most of Harvard's remaining professors found themselves understandably pre-occupied with the war. Charles Townsend Copeland might continue his annual poetry readings in Emerson Hall, but Pitirim Sorokin abandoned purely academic pursuits to perfect and publicize his plan for world peace--national sovereignty, he believed, had to be sacrificed for a world government with a monopoly of force...
...discusses Edgar Allan Poe with a sensitivity and respect that he rarely receives. Authoritatively documented but still highly readable and clear, Gelpi's writing carries the same enthusiastic conviction that characterizes his English lectures. At times he risks oversimplification for the sake of a point, as when he dismisses Emerson's ambiguity in the ending of "Uriel" as untypical. Nevertheless, the essay delineates the fundamental esthetic polarity (between Poe's and Emerson's poetics) through which Gelpi approaches all American poetry and which--when phrased as compellingly as in the following example--justifies even a restricted reading of Emerson...
...When Ken Emerson, the rock reviewer for Avatar, and I interviewed and photographed Country Joe a few weeks ago, we asked him what he thought of Dylan's new album. "You know," said Joe, "I used to really dig Dylan and what he was doing. The new album, I'm not really sure. That hillbilly stuff just isn't our kind of scene. You know, all those Okies." I figured he just missed the whole album. There is only one song, the last one, where the message is the Okie sound. Though that one really threw people because Dylan...
...game. After that it was different." It sure was. Cox forced the panting Pancho into the first five-set match he had played in five years and wore him down in 2¼ hrs. 0-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Cox disposed of Emerson in 75 min., blasting the Aussie off the court in straight sets...