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Literary Thunderheads. For Gross's purposes, "men of letters" are critics and journalists-as distinguished from novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative persons, though countless creators served as men of letters too. His well-read line of English literary men should really be traced back to Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose Lives of the Poets began the great industry of literary criticism and gossip. But what began with a bang (Johnson was capable of no lesser noise) is clearly ending in a whisper. Between Johnson and Eliot lay the great age of the literary thunderheads, roughly dated between...
...universal literacy in which the mind, and the longing for the pleasures of literature, will drown in a plethora of print? Gross quotes the new attitude as described by a Kingsley Amis character: "If there was one thing which Roger never felt like, it was a good read." Have science and the new near disciplines like sociology-not to mention the sheer accumulation of modern knowledge that he cannot hope to assimilate-made the humanist man of letters obsolete, permanently inferior as "the last amateur in a world of professionals...
...prosecutor" for the administration during the hearings, however, had read the four names in the newspapers and decided their cases should not have been dropped. In what amounted to an overruling of the Freund Committee and a denial of the due process so carefully constructed for discipline proceedings, President Pusey and the Corporation asked the heads of departments in which the four teaching fellows taught to "review" their position within the University. In making its request the Corporation had, in effect, exerted the full range of its powers to discipline the alleged offenders...
...normal times, this intuitive taciturnity serves the reader well. He doesn't have to read the same boring details every morning. But in abnormal times it may not be such a service; and in the grossly abnormal times of last spring, it helped produce a virtual news blackout of one of, the more significant aspects of the Harvard crisis...
...July 28, Stauder appeared before the Joint Committee but read only a prepared statement and then left the proceedings. In his statement, Stauder insisted on a public hearing for himself this Fall, "when all interested students and Faculty could attend...