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Bloom, 56, a genial philosopher, professes himself to be "absolutely astounded" at the impact of a work that he thought might have 5,000 or 6,000 buyers, "75% of whom I know." But somehow Bloom's gloomy tract (Simon & Schuster; $18.95) and Hirsch's book as well (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95) seem to be full of things a lot of people care about. Bloom's principal message: American universities, capitulating to 1960s activists, abandoned sound liberal arts teaching for trendy, "relevant" studies in which all ideas have equal value. Bloom deplores this surrender to "cultural relativism," which he considers...
...list of nearly 5,000 entries in an appendix labeled "What Literate Americans Know," ranging from A ("act of God") to Z ("Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea when it sees one, namely the untrivial sales impact of the list, Houghton Mifflin promises more where it came from, i.e., a dictionary of cultural terms and perhaps an electronic game to test cultural literacy...
Joining the ranks of Keats and Milton, John Updike '54 opened an exhibit of his manuscripts at the Houghton Museum yesterday with a discussion about the general value of manuscripts and the controversy surrounding one of his books...
...First, we want to show something about the process of writing," said Houghton Manuscripts Cataloguer Elizabeth A. Falsey, who organized the exhibit. "Second, we want to show how one can draw conclusions about writing by its content," she said in her introduction to Updike's speech yesterday...
...various works come from collections in Harvard's art museums as well as Houghton Library, the Semitic Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Krakow Gallery in Boston...