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...dead." Fussell reduces the whole problem to this: it's not that war is indescribable, but that it's "nasty," and this contradicted the sensibilities of the times. The war's nastiness, certainly contradicted the sensibilities of the high culture Fussell embraces. His favorite poem, for instance is, Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches," because of its pastoral resonances. And in his clever pastiche on "The characteristic pastoral homoerotic tenderness of Great War British male love," centering around public school graduates, he ignores the relationship between men in the Other Ranks, and their heterosexual practices...
...situation is reversed and he is writing about everyday America, Helprin often feels compelled to use style and language to give his story an exotic strain. Helprin is not unique in his desire to blend the old and the new--he is following such writers as John Fowles and Isaac Bashevis Singer--but he has managed, through the juxtaposition of form and content, to throw some new light on the difficulties and rewards of integrating the tradition and slow beauty of the past into the hectic pace of the present...
...SAID that when Isaac Bashevis Singer came to Harvard last year to give a reading from his latest novel that he sounded too much like a whining old Jew. From one of his own stories in this new collection, one gets the impression that Bashevis Singer isn't always well-liked. The story is about a New Year's party for Yiddish writers, and in this seemingly autobiographical sketch, the narrator/author says he has always hated such parties because "Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish...
...author might be having a little fun in this story, extolling his own virtues by claiming he has many detractors--like, he implies, many great men. But pride and even whining are easily within the range of emotions Isaac Bashevis Singer explores in Passions, and as he says of Eastern European Jews--both those who were destroyed in the Holocaust and those who survived to come to America--"The longer I live with them and write about them, the more I am baffled by the richness of their individuality and (since I am one of them) by my own whims...
Last week for the first time a Harvard newspaper told of the denial of tenure to the eminently qualified associate professor of Afro-American Studies, Ephraim Isaac. The day after this article appeared, the Crimson devoted its entire editorial page to a piece on the Harvard-Yale Game. Not that the two stories are meant to carry equal weight in the minds of readers; "The Game" merits at least a full page in all the Harvard newspapers every year...