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...Crimson yachtsmen lost their wind in the B-division. Jim Hammett could do no better than sixth place in Saturday's competition and teammate Tony Leggett was the victim of two capsizes and a breakdown on Sunday...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Stong, | Title: Harvard Sailors Run Aground at MIT; Radcliffe Sees Smooth Sailing at Tufts | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...conventional analytical tools of the critic--close attention to the language and internal structure of texts--with methods drawn from other disciplines, particularly Marxian social theory and Freudian psychoanalysis. Marcus employs all of these methods to interpret each text he reads--whether by Engels, Freud, Dickens or Dashiell Hammett. And in each case, these different levels of analysis are neither entirely separable nor reducible one to the other. For Marcus, the tropes and ambiguities of a writer's language furnish keys to the underlying meaning of his work, to the way his vision of society is actualized in imaginative form...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Choice Critic | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...latest book, Representations, is a collection of essays originally published in various magazines over a 15 year period, in appearance the sort of innocuous collection many successful critics produce from time to time. And in fact, a number of these pieces, such as those on Waugh, Faulkner and Hammett, have the character conventionally associated with such volumes--that of being well-written, perceptive and clever, but without a coherent purpose. The book as a whole, however, despite Marcus's protests to the contrary, reads like "an ideal project for literary studies," an embodiment of the benefits to be derived from...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Choice Critic | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Only six of the 11 members of the Mather panel attended last night's meeting. William H. Hammett '77, a member of the panel, said they would meet again tonight to try to decide whether to nominate students...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Dunster Boycotts CRR; Mather Panel Undecided | 12/4/1975 | See Source »

...panel will meet later this week to decide whether to nominate students to the CRR, William H. Hammett '77, a member of the panel, said last night

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Winthrop House Calls Referendum On CRR Boycott | 12/2/1975 | See Source »

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