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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the not-so-good tutorials in the sophomore year seem to occur at the outposts of the Harvard-Radcliffe camps. All-girl tutorials with a woman tutor, especially in a "masculine" field such as Government, often lack the gusto necessary to valuable discussion. On the other hand, many all-male group tutorials degenerate into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that...
...Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished...
...years, Henry Adams salted the tail of no abstract truth and had not secured the literary immortality of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and the Education, but he was subtly acquiring a measure of Socratic greatness. For the answers that man gives to the dilemmas of his time are often interred with his bones, but the questions he asks about life's eternal mystery live after...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Irish Rebellion once again, in an insur rection that has been refought more often than the Punic Wars; with Barry Sulli van, Geraldine Brooks...
Traditional occasions are so often painful affairs, making up in nostalgia what they lack in every other area, that it was a double pleasure to attend one which was, on its own merits, as enjoyable as last Friday evening's concert. The annual serenade by the Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs on the night before The Game was once again a rousing success...