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...letters, Jarrell struggled constantly with his contradictory urges to chastise and create. When Edmund Wilson praised him for a review, he wrote back expressing thanks and explaining, "Of course I care about [my] poems a million times more." In another letter he summarized an essay he was contemplating called "The Age of Criticism": "Brothers, if you write enough criticism like this, in the end nobody will even want to write a limerick." It did not escape Jarrell's notice that he was a prime example of a tendency he deplored...
Henry Grunwald's Essay is a fitting finale to your memorable issue, but I do not agree with the rough translation of his father's poetic phrase "Deine Heimat ist wo das Glück dich grüsst." Rather than translating it "Home is where you are happy," I prefer the more literal "Your home is where good fortune welcomes you." I think that expresses more accurately the reason immigrants want to make the U.S. their home. Sol Z. Abraham Denver...
...like Henry Grunwald, am an immigrant from Vienna. His Essay will be a valuable teaching tool in my high school Spanish and German classes, and I will use it to convey the feelings that I hope will promote better global understanding. Thank you for saying it so well. Eva Frank Kansas City, Kans...
After almost four years here, I can’t say I have made all the right choices during shopping period. But, unlike Douthat in his essay, I don’t blame Harvard. One of the College’s greatest strengths is the diversity of academic opportunities it affords its students. Giving undergraduates latitude to shape their academic experiences means that even the best of them will make mistakes (unless, of course, you take my shopping advice). At least this way, it’s our fault when we don’t get the education we want...
...that erupting sperm is the money shot of porn films. It's not just that porn is made for the sexual excitement of men; it's that the arousal of the penis is easier to display visually than arousal of the clitoris. As Gill noted in the "Blue Notes" essay: "Simply as theatre, cunnilingus isn't a patch on fellatio, and it is difficult to see what even the most ardent Women's Lib maker of blue movies can do about...