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Though the politics of curricular reform look initially encouraging, there are probably definite economic constraints to reform. May devoted only one paragraph to the costs of education among his pages of questions about it, but the paragraph is an important one. It asks the House proposals "to be realistic, in the sense of at least giving consideration to cost differentials among alternative proposals." While May did not say so, it seems probable that the funds available for undergraduate instruction can only be shuffled around, not significantly increased, in an era when the Faculty is already running a hefty deficit...
...Joycean epiphany in John G. Short's fantasy-ridden account of the Weatherman incidents in Chicago comes in the final paragraph. Short knows that the instant revolution of Weathermen and other such groups is merely an extension of their oedipal urge to kill the repressive father. As Short wings away from riot-torn central Chicago to the relative security of the Harvard womb, he recalls how he used "to sit every morning when I was 14 years old in a big gothie chapel dreaming of machine-gunning the headmaster and deacons when they walked out the front door." So Chicago...
According to the statement's last paragraph, the reason for publicizing the University policy was "so that each member of the community will understand its importance and their individual responsibility to contribute toward its maximum fulfillment...
...very fine, if one didn't also have to read the damn thing. For when epics grow out of the Oral Stage, they lose something of their amiability. Bored has a distressing habit of repeating again and again the perverse patterns on which its humor depends. Every paragraph is sure to mention at least one refugee from a Medieval Bestiary, along with two unrelated brand names...
...this insidious Real Author? you are perhaps driven to ask. Well, enough of such suspense! From the very first paragraph ("Do you like what you both see...? said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within."), the Real Author is easily identifiable as none other than the odious Terry Southern. So you see why I had to mention the unfortunate proliferation of parody. Not even the Poon is safe from such unexpected reversals of reality, because this man Southern has done them one better. It should there-fore...