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...planet of Trafalmadore and I doubt if many more will believe that I have lived among the Yalies. But I have, and may someday write a book about it, though I am neither Gulliver nor Herodetus. Suffice it here to note a singular occupational Harvard for a Harvardman at Yale: showing one's true colors. Examples follow...
...this same school can be found considerable work by Robert Bly, 44, a Harvardman, pacifist and founder of a poetry periodical devoted to new verse and progressively called The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies. Ely's The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last is a long, savage, sometimes murky lament against the horrors of the Viet...
Like the Ancient Mariner he is, Samuel Eliot Morison stoppeth one of three-among the myths that pass for history in the European discovery of America. As a seagoing admiral, U.S.N.R. (and Harvardman), Morison gives the back of his salty hand to those modern "library navigators" (particularly Yalemen) who in 1965 swallowed whole the Vinland map story. Morison sees a fine post-1600 hand behind this document, which was dated about 1440 by its discoverers. "I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery." Growling about "phony voyages," he swiftly slaps...
Once on the scene, Harvardman ('59) Scott was doubly disturbed. "No alumnus," he says, "can be indifferent to obscene chants in Memorial Church or the sight of Harvard Yard looking like a battlefield of the Crimean War. The polarization of the generations is galling, tragic and destructive. Harvard somehow never does things by halves...
...Mansion, the mayor's official residence, it took only a flicker of fantasy to imagine that they were standing in the White House portico, circa 1972. It was almost a case of take-your-pick. Dressed alike in dark suits and rep ties-only the breastpocket handkerchief set Harvardman Kennedy apart from Yaleman Lindsay-both exuded all the youth, intelligence and patrician good looks a voter could hope for. Though mere commoners in their respective parties, the mayor and the Senator each had about him a certain look of political inevitability...