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This attack is somewhat ironic coming from Epstein, a professor at Northwestern University and editor of The American Scholar (the voice of Phi Beta Kappa), but Epstein's prose is refreshingly free of academic cant. In fact, he attempts to puncture the diseased, pseudo-critical language he calls "blurbissimo"--swollen with hyperbolic vacuity and written more or advertisements than reviews...
...Beta Kappa, a prestigious academic honor society, has elected twelve Harvard juniors to join the institution...
Rich won Guggenheim fellowships in 1952 and 1961, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters poetry award in 1961. Harvard named her Phi Beta Kappa poet...
Twelve Radcliffe juniors have gained election to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, one of the college's highest academic distinctions...
Kates said Phi Beta Kappa elections are based on grades and faculty references. The prestigious society was "designed to acknowledge outstanding scholarly achievement," she added...