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Several English Department members yesterday praised Bercovich--considered one of the foremost Puritan culture and literature scholars in the country...
Bercovich has been a full professor at Columbia since 1970, and he has written two books on Puritan thought and literature as well as numerous articles on that and other aspects of American culture. He said that he planned to teach an undergraduate course covering American Puritanism and Romanticism and a graduate course on Melville--the subject of his current research...
...Fassbinder, who died last June at 36, was a cauterizer of the German body politic. In the 1977 telefilm (reduced from three hours to 110 minutes for theatrical release), he portrays Hanni and Xaverl not simply as predator and willing prey but as victims of both economic hypocrisy and puritan prurience. Nor is the viewer exempt: he must peek at Hanni's lovemaking through frosted train windows and the billowing lace curtains of the middle class. The leading actors are exemplary: Trissenaar, porcelain-skinned and angel-faced and scarily self-possessed, and Raab, the perpetual slow schoolboy horrified...
...nightclub once or twice a week. Seven out of ten said hardly any of their free time is wasted, and six of ten said excess time is best spent when it focuses on goals. Said Social Scientist John Pollock, who supervised the study: "Our flinty Puritan heritage has its hooks in the present...
...society. American Decorative Arts by Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz (Abrams; 405 pages; $65) forages through the American experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated with large portraits of cows' heads. Generously illustrated, with a minutely expert and civilized text...