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...often been my fate-perhaps the expatriate's fate in general, perhaps merely the self-hater's-to be against things. As an American, I have frequently seemed anti-American; as an educated person, I'm often anti-intellectual. When I taught at Harvard, I was anti-Harvard. All of which makes me, I suppose, a rather good European, since...
...many Europeans these days, the charmless fate of America feels very much like what the poet W.H. Auden described as the state of most poets' output: good ideas, badly executed. Wealthy, work-obsessed, gobbling down small, hurried pleasures in cholesterol-laden chunks as we contemplate the risings and fallings of the Dow, we tend to forget that charm, as Camus observed in The Fall, can provide us with "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question...
...tournament in which the top eight competitors in each weapon secure a berth, Katz finished fourth and Blase snuck in at the final slot. Blase's fate was briefly in doubt, as she actually finished ninth among the foilists...
...lines of argument for which the letters serve as narrative evidence. One such argument consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation came under fire during his own time (it has since suffered an even worse fate--oblivion), was a white writer, literary gate-keeper and a "dedicated and serious patron of black art and letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten...
...Harvard students, extreme solipsism may lead us to believe that our fate is of crucial importance to the "middle class," broadly conceived. Simply put, it is not. Keep in mind that elite higher education affects only a miniscule number of Americans. The astronomical tuition fees of a Harvard or a Swarthmore are very different from those seen at most public colleges and universities across the country, the real seedbed of the middle class...