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...reader persevered to the twelfth paragraph of the story, he or she would learn that I am indeed leaving Harvard next year--but only for a one year visit at another school. As I told your reporter, this leave was arranged several years ago, a fact conveniently omitted from the story. The innuendo in the story's statement that I have no "present" plans to leave permanently is unwarranted...
...your printing of my letter on September 30th, one little mistake changed the entire sense and sentiment of my concluding paragraph. My penultimate sentence reads, "Should Harvard then put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Boer regime?" The Crimson, by substituting "Bok" for "Boer," is replacing my focus on a hegemonic group and putting attention on an individual. This is exactly the historical gestalt my letter opposes. I do not equate Harvard University with the "Bok regime" (whatever that is). The administration is not Harvard University. Students...
...fact remains, though, that the jury did find three paragraphs of the 55-paragraph story in question were inaccurate, and published with such knowledge...
...book does not rest on what she tells but on her miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better," or, "If there is any reason in the world...
Indeed, there is perhaps no more humbling experience in the world than taking one's first comp piece to his adviser. Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the writer is emasculated. The most one can hope for is a kind "This stinks," or some other system pathetic comment which does the job in one fell blow. Unfortunately, most compers are subjected to the slow method, slieing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with comments like "Oh, I don't know about this adjective," or "Have you ever really seen nuns wrestle...