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With 14 minutes left in the game, freshman forward Gina Foster scored the tying goal, her first-ever goal. Foster earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors...
...earlier memoir, Leaving Home, Buchwald described a somewhat bleak childhood spent in foster homes. I'll Always Have Paris (Putnam; 236 pages; $24.95) takes up the story after Buchwald completed a hitch in the Marines and three years at the University of Southern California. In June 1948 Buchwald sailed for France, where he took certain liberties with the G.I. Bill. He told the Veterans Administration he would be studying French, but he never showed up for class. Indeed, he never learned the language, getting by on body English and the Franglais that eventually made his Paris dispatches (including, among other...
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride...
...beginning, some friends and I used to play basketball on Sunday mornings in a Greenwich Village playground. The highlight of the year was not some spectacular hook shot--there weren't any spectacular hook shots--but the awards banquet at which we'd hand out honors like "The John Foster Dulles Award for the Most Specious Out-of-Bounds Argument" and a special trophy for "Most Improved Jewish Player...
Having been an English and French concentrator (among other disciplines in my three years,) I have had more than my fair share of graduate students in classes. Aside from the domineering and negative presence graduate students foster, a mixed classroom such as I have described is not effective because graduate and undergraduate students have different goals, different experiences; they are at different points in their lives and in their education. There is an uneven flow of information and knowledge, only because age dictates it. In my experience at Harvard, graduate student presence intimidates undergraduates, dominates the forum of open discussion...