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...magazines schooled him in another creative outlet, too. Updike came of age during the heyday of so-called “light verse”—brief rhymes based on word play—and as his vocabulary matured the genre afforded him a crack at verbal virtuosity...
...Jewish student who attended elite Northeastern schools in the heyday of the Protestant Establishment, Slavitt faced prejudice growing up. When he applied for admission to Choate, a school representative calmly informed his parents that the year’s “Hebrew quota” had already been reached. Slavitt, a middle-schooler at the time, was in the room...
...heyday of the Harvard elective system Le Baron Briggs used to tell of a father who after struggling long and hard with the Dean's office took his son home and set him to work, remarking that he had lacked judgment trying to put a $5,000 education on a $500 boy." In a recent commencement address President Lowell of Harvard gravet developed the same idea, and added, "at present this is heresy" implying that it is somewhat in advance of our time...
...dark and complicated takes on the western--Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove--but they, like westerns themselves in recent years, have been as occasional as tumbleweeds. We still associate the genre with the moral simplicity and cliche of its heyday: straight-shooting, black and white hats. (When President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," he wasn't going for relativism.) Are we ready for the genre of John Wayne and Shane to get the gray-hatted HBO treatment...
...fashion mavens. Downstairs, in what was once the couture salon, an exhibit entitled "Dialogue with Art" highlighted some of Saint Laurent's iconic silhouettes: the Mondrian dresses, the Picasso homage of intricately beaded capes splashed with Cubist images, the Pop Art dresses indebted to Andy Warhol. In his heyday Saint Laurent was inspired by artists as much as by the women he dressed. These days it's unusual to see anything totally original in fashion, because so many designers look to the past - to the work of people like Saint Laurent - for inspiration. This season particularly, the fall 2004 runways...