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...Aldrich's considered opinion--after walking around Harvard a bit, talking with a few undergraduates, dropping in on Stanley Hoffmann and classmate L. Fred Jewett '57--that the place has gone to seed. ("Rumor is hardening to conviction," his article begins, "that Harvard University is in decline.") Pathetic lies abound at Harvard's decline to the spirit of guilt and "fairness" he sees running rampant here--a spirit that tramples diversity in the name of egalitarianism. (In that respect, he laments the passing of master's choice from the House selection process...
...Fussell says, has led to "gross dichotomizing...a persisting imaginative habit of modern times, traceable, it would seem, to the actualities of the Great War." He believes the war led to the habit of simple distinction, simplification and opposition. Here he expands his argument to include "paranoid melodrama," the rumor-mongering, and the civilian/soldier dichotomy associated with the war. This latter argument is particularly convincing, since it shows how press censorship and government propaganda suppressing the grim horrors of war alienated the soldier from civilians...
There is no truth to the rumor that Radcliffe Intercollegiate Athletics have died, they've just been on a long vacation. Since mid-December, the women have abstained from competition and devoted their energies to other pursuits, like practice...
Fayer may have difficulty this weekend though, as she will be unable to practice for the rest of this week because of an injury she received while swimming. (Rumor reports that she cut herself on the curb while swimming through the rapids on flooded Shepard Street.) But she is expected to swim on Saturday...
...artist emerges from the Selected Letters of James Joyce. Biographer Ellmann has trimmed three volumes of Joyce's correspondence into a crisp, compelling narrative-and added previously suppressed letters from Joyce to his wife Nora. Visiting Dublin on business in 1909, Joyce was unhinged by the rumor (false) that Nora had been unfaithful to him during their courtship five years earlier. Back in Trieste, Nora was bewildered and shocked by Joyce's anguished accusations. When this crisis passed, the couple tried to bridge their physical and emotional separation with a series of starkly erotic letters. Nora...