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...whole, his intellect prevailed; as new readers continually discover, Jarrell became one of the best and probably the most erudite of American literary critics in this century. The question "Have you read . . .?" recurs often in his letters, and he seems to have read nearly everything: psychology, anthropology, quantum mechanics, most of English and American literature, German folklore, sports-car magazines, science-fiction pulp, the comic strip Terry and the Pirates. He was also quirky and instinctive, peppering his letters with slang like "gee" and "do-vey" (meaning good) and bursts of imagination: "I felt quite funny when Freud died...
...curtain of a waterfall. The man, with machine gun poised to fire, represents civilization and its discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe a decade earlier and raised as a wild child. For Tomme, his father (Powers Boothe) has existed only in the still pools...
...while a lack of kindness is a serious issue—after all, some talented professors are now threatening to leave because of it—isn’t a lack of kindness more easily fixed than a lack of intellect, or a lack of competence? And to those who argue that we shouldn’t have to make that choice (and I agree) my answer is this: After all he’s done for Harvard, as a star economist and in his three years as president, we owe Larry Summers at least a chance to change...
...whatever—but the Internet most certainly is: on the net, somebody could be anyone, and it’s almost impossible to expose false claims of persona. And that means, among other things, that on the Internet, anyone—race, gender, and even sometimes talent and intellect aside—can be somebody, whether they like...
Still, Summers boasted the same impressive intellect and vision as Bollinger, and supporters said that his years dealing with Washington bigwigs had softened his sharper edges. The icing on the cake: He had a Harvard degree. Every one of Harvard’s presidents, starting with the third, had at least one degree from the University...