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Last week Brooklyn Native Katha Pollitt, 27, headed north to take up residence in the house, with two cats, a well-thumbed book of Frost's poetry and a bicycle to get around town. She too has published poems in the Atlantic -mostly free verse, of which Frost disapproved. Sample lines: "You too amaze me, houses of Brooklyn./ All day you are meek, you cup/ unhappiness like water/ when all you want is to be nothing but windows/ to take off into the sky like a flock of birds...
Many researchers at Harvard are interested in doing research in these potentially hazardous areas. Geoffrey P. P. Pollitt, director of the Biological Laboratories, said yesterday...
...plunges us into a predatory Southern family not unlike the Hubbard household so splendidly limned by Lillian Hellman in Another Part of the Forest and The Little Foxes. At the head is Big Daddy Pollitt, who has amassed a fortune of nearly $10-million, never stops bragging about his "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile," and is unaware he has terminal cancer. He loathes his wife, Big Mama, with whom his sex life has been no doublebed of roses...
ERICH SEGAL is a Harvard man. In case you had any doubts, check the recent statement of his Yale chairman explaining why he had been denied tenure. Neither his teaching prowess nor the quality of his publications were questioned. As Professor J.J. Pollitt told The New York Times, "Mr. Segal does other things besides teach classicle literature." Too bad the "other things" had to be so successful. Lucky for Harvard professor and playwright William Alfred he wasn't teaching at Yale when Hogan's Goat became a smash...
...tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt...