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...American History and a new arrival from MIT, offers an explanation for the phenomenon in Harvard's stellar array of lecturers. Many students undoubtedly choose Harvard because of its renowned faculty. And once here they find a simple correlation: "Usually the famous lecturers are good lecturers," observes Lloyd Gruber '86, who sat in on as many classes as he could during his first shopping period...
...Science B-16) just to see what Stephen Jay Gould was like," says Daniel Shaw a Grays freshman who intimately decided not to participate in the course's lottery itself suggestive of ticket scrambling before a sold out Broadway show. "Gould was on the cover of News week," Gruber notes. "And (Prof. Stanley) Hoffman is always in Time magazine...
While it remains difficult to evaluate the mindset of an unapplauded lecturer, it's fairly easy to gauge how applause receivers feel. "No one who is honest about it," Clive says, "dislikes the applause." And freshmen seem prepared to continue this unique Harvard tradition. "It's like tipping," Gruber says. "If the waiter serves real slowly, you're still going to tip 15 percent...
...Robert Gruber...
...human image. One almost forgets, at this range, what a widespread set of conventions it produced in painting and sculpture. Yet there they all are: the early Bernard Buffets, gray, spiky still lifes, mournful and oppressively style-ridden; the even earlier works of a virtually forgotten artist, Francis Gruber, whose ravaged landscapes and etiolated figures à la Jacques Callot seem to have given the much slicker Buffet most of his ideas. In sculpture there were the post-Hiroshima-style images, all spikes and burnt dribbles of welded iron, by people like Germaine Richier...