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...SLOW LEARNER by Thomas Pynchon...
...myself if I was really put on this earth to write about the likes of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy." A bit too harsh a verdict; but then Rovere did not come to writing easily. He flunked the first grade in his Brooklyn elementary school, was diagnosed a slow learner and never thought about making words his life's work until a high school football injury gave him a long stretch of hospital time for reading. After an uncomfortable journalistic debut as a subeditor on that now defunct "independent" Communist journal The New Masses, Rovere was hired...
...have no reason to doubt that--as a quick and intelligent learner--Spence will quickly grasp how best to ensure the Core does not unravel, how to keep the House system strong, and how to set an effective policy on sexual harassment--just to name three important student issues. But amidst all the hoopla of the appointment, the integral role and problems of undergraduates might easily be put aside and forgotten, especially for someone who has not had a great deal of contact with them over his tenure here. In his drive to help graduate students and junior faculty...
...Quick Learner...
...think that he thought all fields were green with white stripes on them." And so can years get away. "How does an eleven-year-old qualify for a driver's license?" Madden remembers asking his wife once when his signature was requested on their son's learner's permit. "John," she said softly...