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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel, Ira taps out some musings on his own literary approach: "Best thing he could do -- maybe -- would be to excerpt sundry articles, dispatches, editorials from, say, the New York Times, and let it go at that, let the reader wade through the sociopolitical spate of happenings of the century's second decade in the appropriate studies of the period, and for his own impression." Then he adds: "Lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending a 60-Year Silence | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

Students in Harvard's most popular course, Moral Reasoning 22, "justice," might recognize his name. An excerpt from one of Walzer's books, Spheres of Justice, is part of this week's required coursebook reading...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Walzer Critiques Use of Wisdom | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

...trying to woo my editing partner in a conference course I'm taking. We have to exchange papers a lot and give each other suggestions on how to improve the content, the style, the organization, and so forth. Here's an excerpt from my latest effort, which I'm supposed to show to my partner early next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's in the crispitos? | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...think we're one of the closest bunch of roommates at Harvard. It might be better, then, to think of our arguments as dialogues. Or even better, dialogues of friendship. (Does that somehow ring a bell?) To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an excerpt from our most recent spate of angry, but friendly words...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: With Friends Like These... | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...BOOK EXCERPT: The Fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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