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...that without their munificent fund-raising efforts, Nixon would not be President. According to insiders, the man in charge of funneling funds into G.O.P. coffers is one Herbert W. Kalmbach. Last week potential backers of the Republican Convention in San Diego received copies of a letter signed by John Keeney, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's fraud division. While ordinary political contributions are not tax-deductible -contributions by corporations are in fact illegal-the letter all but assures that contributions to the convention can be written off under a new federal law effective April 7. In convoluted legalese...
...seminar, which meets at 9 p.m. on Thursday in Bertram Hall, will focus on "black humor as a modern mode of response to experience," Keeney said. Students in the seminar will read works by such writers as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett. They also may discuss some of Kafka's writings...
...Keeney said the course would examine what black humor means in terms of current values and why it is so appreciated now. It will explore black humor's relation to comedy and tragedy and will try to determine what black humor's peculiar qualities...
...Keeney said that the tutors had originally hoped to give the course credit, but were not allowed to by the General Education Program because they applied too late. He said he hoped that the seminar will receive course credit next year as Harvard House seminars...
...Keeney added that if the seminar had been given for credit this year, its syllabus would have included more pre-World War II writers since the seminar instructors know these authors best. The seminar would also have been more rigorous. As it is, the course will be very loosely structured, on the order of a graduate seminar. Students can suggest whatever topics if discussion they wish. "We're as much babes in the woods as any of the students on the subject," Keeney said...