Word: restrictionism
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So while the Harvard student may feel safer these days, that feeling is accompanied by a sense of isolation and restriction. No longer can a Mather House resident receive a surprise call from a friend; no longer can an Eliot House resident throw open house parties.
ERNEST STILLMAN apparently had faith that Harvard would take care of his gift as he had intended. In a gift to Palisades Interstate Park System, he included a reversion clause--that if the land were ever sold it would revert to the Stillman heirs. No such restriction was placed on...
So while the Harvard student may feel safer these days, that feeling is accompanied by a sense of isolation and restriction. No longer can a Mather House resident receive a surprise call from a friend; no longer can an Eliot House resident throw open house parties.
On the surface, these are two radically different books. Where the Updike is scrupulously realistic, serious-minded and dramatically controlled, the Pynchon is comic, fantastic and deliberately unfocused. Where the Updike restricts himself to a particular set of events in a particular West Pennsylvanian locality, Pynchon's imagination is globe...
Other arguments in the editorial appear to me not worth rebuttal. It should be remarked that the whole fiery issue revolves around a minor restriction on just five meals a week. Zeph Stewart Master of Lowell House