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...President Lawrence H. Summers, who said in a speech two months ago he is concerned that anti-semitism is on the rise in “progressive intellectual communities,” had conversations with English department faculty before Paulin’s invitation to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture was first cancelled...
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...writing in order to address a wrong impression that some have drawn from your front-page articles about the decision, mutually agreed upon with the noted Irish poet Tom Paulin, not to hold his poetry reading under the Morris Gray lectureship originally scheduled for Nov. 14 (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture” and “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 13 and 14). The Crimson coverage can easily be read as giving the impression of a unanimous department position on the subject. Such was not the case...
...annual winter slump is about to arrive. It is timed perfectly to correlate with the due date of my first thesis chapter, the day my heater quits and the day that Harvard turns a pathetic color gray for six weeks with no snow. So instead of doing my school work, I will close my blinds and dedicate my precious evening hours to Must-See TV, the opium of the masses. In the coming weeks, 80 percent of the people I see each day will be prettier, happier and more successful than I am. None of this will warp my self...
Instead of frigid gray Boston, I will see a Friendly Manhattan followed by a gay Manhattan, a sunny Miami and a drama-packed Chicago. The logical questions won’t be asked: Isn’t New York City a slushy mush of snow and dog poop in the winter? Don’t people blow away in Chicago on a regular basis? No, no. TV world is Happy World, and for three hours every Thursday night, I’m a part...