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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John A. Spritz, an English major who said last week he was "scared off" by Option III because he had heard it was "rather confining," agrees with Polonsky that very little feedback or encouragement comes to writers at Harvard. "Most of the writing here is going on quietly in the middle of the night. People put stuff in drawers and you never hear about it," Spritz said...
...asking for the impoundment of the scoreboards from the Dartmouth-Brown and Harvard-Yales games," he heard Betty say, "and are asking for a recount of the points scored last week in the key precinct of Cambridge. However, we first want to wish the best of luck to the incoming winners Jimmy Anderson and Walter "Fritz" Cozza in the upcoming year...
...likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state, directed the battle in the trenches from afar, and counted each vote as extension and product and reward of effort. All of these people and more divide and lay claim...
...mission" in the world, however, requires wading through such rhetorical pronouncements. He comes out of an old tradition--out of the old black African Methodist church, out of rhythm and blues, out of shouts and hollers and revivalism. As a child in a poor area of Cleveland, he heard his father tell of his grandfather who had been a slave. The family took religion very seriously (says Blue, "My daddy wore the Bible out with his eyes,"), and religion remains a very strong facet of Blue's life. Blue began his career as a fabulist by telling stories...
Blue came to Harvard on a scholarship with the intent of going on to Harvard Law School. "I wanted to be the black Clarence Darrow...I was going to start freeing all the people who didn't belong in jail," he says. Impressed with the sermons he heard at Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church here, Blue decided he might help people from the pulpit, and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. But while preaching a funeral sermon there, Blue realized that the ministry was not his calling. "I suddenly realized what a mystery life is, and that I didn't have...