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...perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than the stronghold of that upper class it served as in the '20s. As Aldrich pointed out in Harper's last Harvard overview, Harvard and Radcliffe now serve as steps to middle class status, rather than as the stomping grounds for those who already hold it. Nevertheless, Trilling argues convincingly that the dominant values at Harvard are those of the middle class, and if the admissions procedure has changed a great deal, the final...
This may, of course, be all anyone could to in such a format. An overview designed to acquaint members of the Corporation and other alumni with University issues probably cannot go into great detail; that is for other reports, aimed at more specific audiences. It may well be beyond anyone's capacity to delve deeply into questions about the nature of education in various fields in a 53-page summary of five years of experience...
...three sections of four chapters each. The first section is the most general, dealing with what Frye calls the "Contexts of Literature." It is from this section that the two essays touching on student radicalism are drawn. The next portion of the book, "The Mythological Universe," provides a useful overview of Frye's general critical principles and their application to the theory of literary modes. The final section, the most technical, contains essays on four of Frye's favorite poets--Milton, Blake, Yeats and Wallace Stevens--all of whom he has commented on before...
...given himself an Olympian team of about 30 commentators-not too many woodwinds, please-complemented by a crew of 470, including directors, cameramen, technicians. Anchor man is Jim McKay, the Walter Cronkite of TV sports, who, in a tempo as neatly clipped as his hair, will provide an overview and summaries of events...
These distortions matter because they imply that Jefferson's experience of the visual arts was much wider than it really was. He did not have the automatic overview of a modern museumgoer; nor was he a kind of Yankee Kenneth Clark, mellifluously discoursing among the servants and mockingbirds of Monticello. He believed, correctly, that he was an instrument of history; but he did not imagine himself as a character in a cultural saga. Jef ferson's tough, ambitious self-teaching, in all its patchiness, cannot have been the smooth inheritance of masterpieces that his show suggests...