Word: littlejohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest story in the magazine, David Littlejohn's Conversation With a Corpse," is just as disappointing. Is gruesome--both the story and the writing. The narrative centers around a man who takes care of corpses in a hospital and talks so them. It gets pretty cloying after a while. Littlejohn introduces a lot of gory detail, but the detail does not contribute significantly to the development of the story...
...Littlejohn rambles on in this vein for ten tedious pages. The reader, however, can conquer the tedium by letting his mind wander and try to guess whose style Littlejohn is trying to imitate...
James I. Corcoran '63 won the annual essay contest of Current, the Harvard Radcliffe Catholic Club quarterly, for the article "Religious Liberty for all." David Littlejohn won the graduate competition, with the essay "The Banning of Books...
...this a religious work?" Littlejohn asked Robert W. Haney '56, minister at the First Unitarian Church of Boston, who was asked the same question in the recent Massachusetts court proceedings. Haney replied, "If by religious you mean it achieves respect for the divinity, then Cancer is not a religious book. If, however, you mean it expresses a man's ultimate commitments, then it is a religious book...
...David Littlejohn, teaching fellow in English who has organized the forum, will act as moderator...