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The reasoning behind the Yale-like "no-choice" plan seems to be that if no one has a say in housing assignments, then no one will be unhappy after the assignments have been made. But this assumes that students' feelings about the Houses have no rational basis and that there...
Possibly, but Kubrick's curiosity was probably aroused by the chance to explore a character who is his antithesis. About his work Kubrick is the most self-conscious and rational of men. His eccentricities-secretiveness, a great need for privacy -are caused by his intense awareness of time'...
As work permits a reconciliation of man and nature, love is the catalyst to the growth of a genuine spirit of community. The welfare-corporate state promotes a perverse love, an admiration of certain physical or moral attributes that deny the lover recognition as an individual. The person who experiences...
Lionel Trilling's, humor was quiet, for he was a quiet man. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 70, those who had known and cherished him during his 44 years in the Columbia English department tried to recapture the elusive qualities of a great...
Macho Politics. Mo also rates a chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine...