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Such pressures, direct and indirect, have had a profound impact on the 630,000 seniors who will pick up diplomas this spring. While many???perhaps a majority?are the familiar breed who spent their years at college in pursuit of an education or a profession without fretting too much over the meaning of either, even the quiet ones have been affected more than they show. Those who are in the really new mold sometimes show it by a defiance in dress: beards beneath the mortarboards, microskirts or faded Levis under the academic gowns. More often, and far more significantly...
...curriculum. Pouring over the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, he learned much that Joseph Pulitzer knew and suspected things Joseph Pulitzer had never thought of. Working as business manager and later as managing editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Mr. Hearst first sniffed the?to so many???drug of printer's ink. What is more important he made the Lampoon...
...Irish artistic immigrants in America are many???and it is astonishing how quickly they become acclimated. Take Ernest Boyd, for example, whose literary influence has caused no mean flutter in American criticism, or the Hacketts, or John Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the most delightful personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern...