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...scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...
...Mount Holyoke will too. As part of a formal investigation, students who took Ellis' Vietnam course will be contacted to determine the severity of the lies. Some colleagues suspect that Ellis will resign before the investigation is complete. "He's devastated by this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...Even I, a lowly Mets fan from New Jersey, have always observed opening day with reverence, but the temple was not Shea Stadium, but Albion Park in Clifton, N.J. Baseball season was not baseball season and springtime had not yet sprung unless I, too, was on the ballfield...
...Apple Circus is back with an all-new show about the town that Boston loves to hate. But even with a segment entitled “At Yankee (or Shea) Stadium,” the intense rivalry seems to have melted under the feel-good big top spirit, resulting in a lot more of the love and a lot less of the hate...
...watch cable (“Behind the Music: Meat Loaf!”) and catch up on videos. Ah, mindless TV. Besides learning that the insanely catchy “Oochie Wally” (by Queensbridge’s Finest) has the raunchiest video ever, I also learnt that Shea Seger’s “Last Time” has just been added to MTV2’s “Artists to Watch” show. Which makes it about three months since I wrote about her in this column. Remember, you read it here first...