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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing apart seven centuries of established order...
They were married after his junior year. He graduated summa cum laude in English, after turning in a thesis titled "Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick's Imitations and Echoes of Horace." It was a splendid college career, but in retrospect, Updike feels that Harvard somehow sapped him of some vague, irreplaceable vitality. "I feel in some obscure way ashamed of the Harvard years. They were a betrayal of my high school years, really. Harvard, in exchange for a great deal of work, made me a civilized man. It's somehow painful...
...effort may well lead to a direct confrontation between Premier Johnson and Prime Minister Trudeau on the question of special status for Quebec. And if such a confrontation occurs, it could prove to be the turning point--one way or the other--in the 200 year history of French-English division in Canada...
...statement in support of those students who refuse cooperation with the Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral, and as my name therefore did not appear in your edition of April 15, I wish to record it now. Daniel Seltzer Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Loeb Drama Center
Also Lucy D. Owen, Moors, Classics; Carla J. Shatz, Moors, Chemistry; Barbara J. Tucker, 24 Garden Street, Social Relations; Karen J. Winkler, Daniels, English...