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...Urbana Onward, a conference sponsored jointly by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a nationwide umbrella organization for Christian student groups, focused on Bible study, practical discussions about becoming a missionary and group prayer...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas. Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam...
Americans found it harder to live with the more profoundly threatening possibility that they might lose a way of life. From the Arab oil boycott of 1973 onward, the decade was bathed in a cold Spenglerian apprehension that the lights were about to go out, that history's astonishing material indulgence of the U.S. was about to end. Possibilities seemed to contract. Americans tutored in the gospels of progress began for the first time to peer at the future as a possible enemy. A few of them started waving pistols in the gas lines...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland -Onward and Upward in the Garden, Katharine S. White - The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff -The Intricate Music, Thomas Kiernan - The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas -The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe -The White Album, Joan Didion
Edward Hoagland • Onward...