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...appearance of orderliness in the pages of the Register and the abstract, highly distilled information it provides give it a simplicity that is its greatest flaw. And yet there are hints that beneath the Freshman Register's tranquil, even complacent surface lies a conception of Harvard that is neither simple nor static. It is possible to spend hours staring at tiny representations of people one knows--representations that already belong to the past, photographs, concentrations, sometimes even names hopelessly out of date. What blasted hopes are hinted at by the obsolete ambitions expressed here to major in such fields...
...hear a lot of this one this year--in this issue of the Crimson, for instance. One self-acclaimed Harvard savant used to say, "The thing about Harvard is that if you're cool, it's cool. It's only if you've got some flaw, some weak point. Harvard will find it, and bring it out." People are always talking about how intense it is here, how they've changed, how high school seems long ago. Maybe people are happy at Harvard but they're hardly ever
...hitters who somehow never make the majors, and the .200 hitters who do. There is the strange case of the black athlete who could do everything-run, steal, hit, field-but who ducked from an inside pitch a microsecond too soon. His fear was his tragic flaw; beanball pitchers got the message and within a season drove the man from the game...
...future--Decter never suggests that there are people, yes, even a few that were in college during the dreaded 60s, who adjusted fairly well to reality. Her parents, as well as her children, are all failures. But if all the children are failures, there seems to be a logical flaw in her argument, as at least a few of the youth of the 60s were not of liberal backgrounds, and she will have to look to reasons outside the home to explain the dissatisfaction of an entire generation...
Therein lies the flaw in virtually all biographies of entertainers. Performance is a mysterious process, often beyond the comprehension of performer-and critic. That mystery is worth dissection; everything else is a banal fever chart of catcalls and triumphs...