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...Harvard student spending some time at one of England's "ancient seats of learning"--such as an Oxford or Cambridge college--will be lulled by superficial impressions of familiarity. He or she will find a lifestyle there very different from that on one of the "glass and redbrick" campuses that are the products of post-war university expansion in the U.K., but the difference is no greater than that between Harvard and a Mid-West American college. Indeed, the "superior" atmosphere common to both "Oxbridge" and Ivy League (which many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem...
...coming, school officials removed sensitive files from the main administration building and stored them in vaults. Some administrators quietly set up emergency offices in other buildings. Then on Thursday morning, a group of minority students (primarily black but including some Asians and Hispanics) converged on University Hall, the redbrick, pre-Revolutionary administration building. They set up guards at the doors, told two deans inside they were free to stay or go, and proceeded to take over the building. The deans stayed, and so did the students, who vowed to remain until their demands were...
Saved takes place in the now familiar world of redbrick slavery, of lower-middle-class depths, of dirty diapers and dirtier sinks. The characters are like seedy relatives whom one loathes and loves-caustic embittered mom, silent spine-shattered dad, sluttish frustrated daughter. Into their midst comes Len (James Woods) the perennial innocent, scarily looking for sex at the beginning, resignedly settling in as a paying roomer...
...travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...
...long will it take you?" Last week the Times printed the names of 807 honors graduates of 34 redbrick provincial universities-the first time the paper has listed graduates from any schools other than Oxford and Cambridge...