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Barnaby said that his major task as coach is "putting an old head on young shoulders" by teaching his players percentage tennis. "It takes two to make good teaching, a teacher and a pupil, and that's why Harvard tennis is so good. All of these guys are legitimate members of the academic community: they'd be here even if they had never seen a racquet. Berner is a concert violinist," he added...
What can you say about a brilliant medieval philosopher-theologian, 37 and virginal, who falls in love with his aptest pupil, the 17-year-old niece of a canon of Notre Dame, has a child by her, marries her and then is castrated by the hired thugs of the irate and possibly incestuous-minded uncle? After all that, Abelard and Heloise live in undying love in separate cloisters. Erich Segal, meet Playwright Ronald Millar, your British opposite number...
...Thus: "I fell in love with a girl. / O and a gash. / I'll bet she now has seven lousy children. / (I've three myself, one being off the record.)" This section celebrates Berryman's collegiate sexuality, makes ever so clear that he was Mark van Doren's prize pupil, and refers to Eliot as "Tom" and Joyce as "Jim." Berryman, of course, is noted for this sort of thing, the seeming arrogance which some how made the Dream Songs so fetching. Here, however, it becomes almost overpowering; the poems become one long stream of cute in-jokes...
...with the sound of Grieg's music, but its richness is lost in endless romps over Julie Andrews' old daffodilled hillsides. It may be argued that Song is aimed at the kids. If so, they will quail pitifully when Grieg the reluctant piano teacher whacks a slow pupil across the, knuckles à la Seventh Veil. Anyway, today's Sesame Street-schooled youngsters are much too sophisticated to be beguiled by so banal and outmoded a story line. ∎Mark Goodman
...same spirit they tried to infuse into each subject of their art. Portraiture ( Chinso in Japanse), "the core of Ch'an art which reveals the essence of Ch'an more directly than any other type of painting," is closely related to the Zen idea of doctrine transmission: each pupil who had achieved Enlightenment was given a portrait of his master with an inscription written by the master. The portrait's physical likeness and inscription both capture the spirit of the master; by looking at the painting and inscription, the student could see "straight into his teacher's heart." The portrait...