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...This year they're looking to defy all expectations. The party's on Trumbull Street, and it's going to have a hero and a heroine, author Jedediah Purdy '96 and actress Claire Danes...
...recent book For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Jedediah Purdy '97 has written a sermon urging us to take seriously serious things. Above all, the author writes, acknowledge your responsibility to the communities you live in, then shoulder it. For those who want to argue, consistently, against this imperative, there are several vacant cabins in Montana. Jobs on Wall Street await those who do not debate the point. But probably most of us think that working for the common good is not an altogether bad thing. Some of us might admit as much in public...
...editorial "The Veritas of Irony" (Oct. 13) Richard S. Lee has embraced features of Jedediah S. Purdy's thinking that do not point to a very complex view of human relationships or how the world works in general. His discussion of the effects of irony on Harvard life amounts to reductive oppositions such as ironic/serious, inside/outside, true/false and superficial/deep...
...What struck me about Harvard," said Jedediah S. Purdy '97 in an interview last week with Fifteen Minutes, "was how many people were basically dissatisfied with their academic experience...and in many cases quite discontented with their Houses and basically with everything Harvard was supposed to be doing...
...Jedediah Purdy '97, the Generation-X author of a book denouncing cynicism, quietly ambled to the podium for a book reading at the Hasty Pudding Institute yesterday evening...