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...there is any flaw in the logic of the decentralized system, it may be in the doctors' confidence that there is enough birth control education on campus. Room 13 staffers, who average one to two late night telephone requests for birth control information, have already had to tell a couple of callers that the morning-after pill must not be taken as soon as the sun rises the next day. Wacker says the people he sees seem well-educated about birth control. But what he may be overlooking with a system as subtle at Harvard's birth control program...
Perhaps the worst flaw in O'Hara's writing, despite Bruccoli's disclaimers, is its lack of a compelling intellectual or moral framework. O'Hara conveys emotion and action as well as anyone, but it is hard to discern any overriding vision beneath his surface realism. As a result, O'Hara's world seems almost too simple, his characters living and dying in a near moral vacuum. O'Hara's fiction describes how his characters live but we are left wondering why they...
...uses sources and formal interviews--he has credibility. Not only is he the best media critic in the country, he is seriously committed to social change, and is an important critic of society as well. His articles on the business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded in Ford for Reagan, and gives convincing evidence for his claim, he titles his revelation "Bozo Must...
...CHUL look favorably on the Grabar proposal if it had this inherent flaw? One major reason was that some Quad representatives, including Grabar, saw the plan as their only hope for keeping freshmen in the Quad Houses. Alan E. Heimert '49, Eliot House master, while no advocate of Quad causes, is a defender of master's interests and saw the Grabar resolution favorably as "the first time in seven years that the CHUL has voted in favor of any form of House autonomy." And so the Grabar proposal passed with the rare alliance of Heimert and the Quad...
Fussell's class bias is the only flaw in his otherwise brilliant analysis. And whether or not you believe that World War I has a unique and monolithic legacy for our way of seeing things, it has certainly reinforced certain modes of perception. War is one of the few experiences that whole cultures can share. In the past ten years, we all shared Vietnam by watching it on television. We saw it in a heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture...