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Through most of 1950, sales of fiction lagged behind nonfiction. It was a reversal of the usual order, but a look at the novels provided at least a partial explanation. The Costains and the Yerbys had their moments, but not the gaudy ones of old, and even the Du Mauriers and the Cronins issued invitations to boredom. British Critic V. S. Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack...
This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...
...remaining departments--the smaller ones--tutorial remains under the control of the particular departments. They are free to continue as they have--offering either partial tutorial or no tutorial--or to adopt the group system...
...symptoms included partial or total lack of menstruation, abdominal enlargements, breast changes (enlargement, milklike secretions, darkening around the nipples), and 22 of the 27 patients reported that they had felt the stirrings of life. Nine had been diagnosed as pregnant by 16 doctors; heart sounds had been reported with two of them while "in labor...
...even if Harvard is going broke on the thing, we wish we had them." But tutors are little more than a hope. Yale went half a million dollars into the red last year and this year may be worse. The College's intellectual salvation can never be more than partial in the forseeable future. The masters know this and intend to energize the current "fellows" system, now generally restricted to an occasional lunch and discussion with crack students...