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...York Times Book Review, Martin Berman pointed a suspicious and defiant finger at Erikson for not laying bare the truth about his own Jewish origins, which Erikson himself at hinted at only vaguely. (Erikson readily acknowledges that his stepfather was a Jew, but Roazen notes that he makes a habit of referring to his parents by nationality only, and not by religion.) Berman also chastened Erikson, in an unbelievably patronizing tone, for not coming to grips with his own illegitimacy. He demands to know why Erikson gave up his step-father's name--Homburger--when he came to America...
...take a little jazz listen--just a warning that you shouldn't bother to check out the Met while it is in Boston, because the John Hynes Auditorium has a habit of making anything, including II Trovatore, look like your high school graduation. And you would never pay $8 and yp to see that Commencement...
PERCY IS NOT a stuffy, uninformed Christian. He believes that scientists are capable of exploring the "angel side" of man but that they will not find anything but biochemistry in chimpanzees. To Percy, the overriding evidence of man's spirituality is the habit of language, or the spark that led Helen Keller to conceive a universe of names and linguistic relationships out of the box of her senselessness. His writing style grows out of this attitude of detachment and rediscovery. Percy's sentences are made of very plain, when necessary very Anglo-Saxon English and his writing has the almost...
...refused to pan out the way old Tom Murray planned. To be sure, his children married well, made money, and had lots of children of their own, even by the most fecund Celtic standards. (Al Smith, a fine Irish buddy of the clan whose only flaw was his persistent habit of losing the presidency, would not even swim in the family's well-populated swimming pool: "I might swallow a baby," he explained.) But the legions of fine children did not see things the same way their parents had, and as they grew older the family learned all the nasty...
...appointed two new deans, one for the Kennedy School of Government and one as associate dean of undergraduate education. With very few exceptions, every prominent administrator at Harvard is still male and white; and while both of the newly appointed deans are well-qualified for their posts, Harvard's habit of appointing administrators from within the faculties makes the need to tenure women and minority group members even more pressing, if the pool from which administrators are chosen is to be diversified...