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...important e-mails. Rereading them was a trip, because they cover everything—the Harvard I want to remember, and the Harvard I don’t want to remember. In them I’m obscenely optimistic and cheerful. I’m painfully na??ve (and still am a little bit). On Jan. 20, exhilarated to be done with final exams and a very rough first semester, I write: “I’m done! I’m finally done! Hooray!” A week later comes a friendly e-mail from...
...were really quite na??ve,” he says. “We were brought up in a depression, and a war. It should have made us very sophisticated, but it didn?...
Perhaps if the writers in Take My Advice had approached their task more equably, as did McCarthy and Gabrielse, the book would have been a lot more than what it is: a mass of tired rhetoric and over-romanticized memories of a more na??ve time...
Having just informed me, her eager and na??ve first-time rider, that she had aggressively searched for the cheapest motorcycle in the Greater Boston metro area, Stith then proceeded to travel further back down motorcycle memory lane. She recounted the learning curve she faced last summer as she herself rode a motorcycle for the first time while on assignment for Let’s Go in Germany...
...framed not in defense of the author, but simply in memory. It is a documentary firmly “rooted in the 20th century, Kerouac’s century,” says Sharples, and captures the intellectual struggles of a man trying to reconcile the “na??ve and hopeful” with “bouts of existential despair...