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...Harvard Lampoon issued it first-ever parody of The Crimson, a stinging sheet playing on the stolid greyness that was the paper's hallmark in its early days. The lead story discussed in excruciating detail the replacement of one oarsman with another; buried beneath it was a one-paragraph item headlined "A Dangerous Attempt." A passerby, the item informed readers, had noticed a lighted fuse attached to Memorial Hall; at its end was enough pieric acid not only to "wreck" Memorial Hall but also to damage some adjacent buildings. Another paragraph or two describes the relese of deadly diphtheria, cholera...
That the editor's analysis is either superficial or inaccurate (or both) is clearly seen. In the one paragraph that does manage to discuss the article, the misleads readers with his interpretation and quotes. He says the Atlantic Monthly article "describes in chilling terms just whom the [Reagan economic] plan benefits--the 'hogs' of American big business were 'really feeding' on a diet of special tax breaks." In fact the article referred to Stockman's disillusionment with special interests, not the ominous "big business" the Crimson writer imagines. To quote directly from the article's next sentence, "Stockman...
Cambridge Express may well be successful; its higher-ups insist they are well ahead of all their financial objectives. If they are, it is damning proof of how totally historical the Phoenix's 15-year retrospective really is. There is one great paragraph in the current Express--part of a scenario about two people who meet an automatic money machine. "My impression is that if these two had met five, or certainly, ten years ago, their genuine passion would have reflected a public spirit which suggested that what was worth wanting was worth attempting. Presently, they have encountered a public...
Giamatti's ideas are welded together by his forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social dimension of education. Giamatti does not stay mute on contemporary problems. In "Power, Politics and a Sense of History"--a remarkably presumptuous title for a 4000-word essay--he declares...
...that paragraph are the seeds and the secrets of a career. With only seven novels, Raymond Chandler became one of the most influential writers in American literature, and literature is what he wrote. This selective volume of his correspondence is a revelation of that singular, conflicted talent. Who touches this book touches a detective...