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Unfortunately for the committee and its attitude of injured righteousness, the facts of the situation point in a somewhat different direction. The first Unofficial Guide appeared September, 1952. The Harvard Handbook of 1952 contains nothing in common with this Guide. However, the 1953 Handbook contains verbatim the "Foreword" and about ten interior pages, including articles an "The Boston Area," "How to Meet Women," and "Finding Your Way" from the 1952 Guide. The (then) responsible Handbook committee printed an acknowledgment: "To the Graduate Student Council ... we give our warmest appreciation." Future Handbooks continued to use freely material from the successive Unofficial...
...earful, the Sonorama listener-reader merely folds back the issue on its plastic hinges, slips it on the turntable spindle through a ready-made hole in the center of the magazine. Wide-ranging and middle-browed, the first issue opens with a pretentious foreword ("In the beginning was the word"), plods through some humdrum popular singing, purrs with the coquetry of Cinemorsel Brigitte Bardot as she chats about Boy Friend Sacha Distel ("I'm at the end of the world with Sacha"). Sonorama comes close to justifying Editor Claude-Maxe's lofty claims with two superb records...
Galbraith also contributes frequently to Atlantic, The Reporter, and Harper's--book reviews, light off-beat articles, discussions with roots in economics but branches in all corners of the contemporary scene. His fluent presentation combines charm and wit, and as he remarks in the foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded...
Documentation of their charges suggests some clear-and clearly controversial-answers to a question put by Columbia Dean Jacques Barzun in the foreword: "Why has the American college and university so little connection with Intellect?" In language that is often witty and only occasionally typical of sociology's bread-pudding prose, Professors Caplow (University of Minnesota) and McGee (University of Texas) list academe's hurtful mores and petty machinations. Some of the worst...
...turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters.' " Such indiscretions should have been more common at that time...