Word: remains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty's shabby treatment of the Afro Department, and Harvard's blatant disregard of the rights and needs of its tenants and neighbors in Cambridge, remain as reminders that some wounds do not heal with time...
...hard to tell it that movies are more fun. And there are other reasons for unease: the short story is a financial failure and its domestic life is a mess. Most of the old mass magazines that once made room for fiction are gone. The few that remain seem to prefer a composite of facts stapled with fictional techniques. During its fleeting life (1967-78), American Review established new boundaries and definitions for its writers. Editor Ted Solotaroff stopped using the term short story and simply called anything that wasn't poetry prose. He also had excellent taste...
...called little magazines remain hospitable. But they are remote, academic and, well, little. Harper's and the Atlantic still keep the faith, as do The New Yorker and a few others. Then there are acts of ritual: the two leading short-story anthologies that publish what their editors deem the worthiest efforts of the previous year. The Best American Short Stories 1978 is the first edition in 37 years not edited by Martha Foley, who died in 1977. The final selections were made by Solotaroff. It is an outstanding collection with at least two stories that continue to reverberate...
What deepened my sadness that evening with my writer is that despite her unwitting hypocrisy and insensitivity, the kinds of issues that she has tried to bring to general attention in her talks and lectures, remain compelling. Perhaps she does not present the most elegantly constructed analyses, but she has the essential element of conviction that saves her rhetoric. She has, however, fallen into the habit of slinging too many canned pronouncements about complicated matters...
...Costs: Students who remained with 21 meals might have to pay more than they do under the present system. Under on of the two types of 21-14 meal plans, students choosing 21 meals would pay approximately $60 more in board charges. Under the other 21-14 meal system the board charge for 21 meals would remain the same...