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...Nathaniel West (who died in an automobile accident) been writing after the advent of the L.A. freeway system and Ralph Williams used-car lots, one suspects that Tod Hackett's apocalyptic vision in Day of the Locust would have been a mammoth car pile-up rather than "The Burning of Los Angeles." (Instead, Godard has provided us with the end-of-the-world traffic jam in his 1968 Weekend...
...Martin's new biography of Nathaniel West misses the nature of this struggle between his ideals and existential pressures. Too long ignored, West's life however is impeccably documented. He graduated from college after passing only three courses. Falsifying his high school transcript to get into Tufts, he flunked out after one semester without passing a course. Hoping to transfer, he requested his records and was mistakenly sent another student's with the same name. He was accepted by Brown with a B+ average and junior standing on the luck of his shuffled transcripts, finally graduating with a minimal average...
...Smith, of Berkeley, Calif., and Dunster House (Linguisties): Max well D. Solet, of Arlington, Va., and Eliot House (Government); Nathaniel I. Spiller, of Cambridge and Winthrop House (Government); Thomas A. Stewart, of Glencoe, I?., and Adams House (English): Henry A, Tanz, of Tueson. Ariz., and Quindy House (Physics): Allan B. Taylor, of North Haven, Conn., and Leverett House (Social Studies): Robert T. Teske, of Milwaukee. Wise., and Quincy House (Folklore and Mythology): Warren T. Treadgold, of Seattle. Wash., and Eliot House (History and Literature); B, Ko-Young Tung, of Tokyo. Japan, and Quincy House (Physics): Bruce C. Vladek...
Over the years, American writers such as Nathaniel West and Ross MacDonald have taken Southern California as a symbol for a national apocalypse to come. Now Charles Manson has given this symbol a new dimension. Unless we pursue the drug murders committed in our name with the same fervor we pursue the political murders being committed in the name of our parents, the Day of the Locust may turn out to be a plague on both our houses...
Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Master of Kirkland House, will move to add the words "and from other forms of intense personal harassment" to the passage insisting on "freedom from personal force and violence...