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Cambridge literati tend to forget that selling used books is basically just another business. There are plenty of things to remind them: the way all the books in Pangloss are catalogued in one binder for easy reference, for instance. Or the way Harvard Book Store absolutely and unflinchingly charges half the original price for all of its used paperbacks. But give them a place like the Starr Book Shop with its crazy castle exterior and its piles and shelves of musty, dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through...
...strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name of My Lai and references to the slaughter of innocents, of whom Iphigenia is the first, Rabe's intent is clear to the point of didactic overkill-to make the curse and crimes of the House of Atreus appear to be the inevitable pattern of all human behavior...
While some have stopped the inquiry at this juncture, others have pursued it further. The most common alternative analysis of the problem is an economic one. Simply, that tight money means fewer applications from black students, even 20 to 25 per cent less. Well, it is first necessary to remind those who hold this economic view, that Chicano and Puerto Rican applications have increased despite tight money. In addition, I think that the percentage of black students on financial aid at Harvard is lower than what might be commonly surmised...
...Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh." Nasser once told the young Gaddafi: "You remind me of myself when I was your age." Gaddafi was profoundly moved. To be the new Nasser is his obsession-to succeed where Nasser failed...
...child might develop natural talents, if he has them, for singing or politics in order to capture the audience response his parents never offered. He may find himself talking compulsively with friends or whining to be the first to answer questions in school. With older people or people who remind him of his father, he may develop an unnaturally soft voice, so that people must constantly tell the neurotic to "speak...