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...Harvard University Band: the first college band to spell on the field. The Marching Band plays at half-times for football games, hockey, basketball and Commencement. Generally irreverent, the band boasts its own smut collection and its perennial Herr Schneider initiates fresh men to the feminine wonders of college life...
More and more examinations of the war are also being published. The best of the war novels and memoirs, in many ways, is Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977). Herr, who spent a year in Viet Nam covering the war for Esquire, writes prose that resembles some weapon the Pentagon developed especially for Viet Nam-hallucinatory, menacing, full of anxiety, death and a stunning, offhanded sort of accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside...
...learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists the college colors over German," adding "and is Herr Hitler's face crimson!" The New York Sun carried a letter from "an old Yale man" who said that "naturally and properly, I have always had a rather slight opinion of Harvard and all its works. That's all over now. I am as proud of Harvard...
Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr...
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Chateaubriand. George D. Painter ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ And I Worked at the Writer's Trade, Malcom Cowley