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...doctor has come down with the disease; the historian has fallen prey to the shortsight that he attributed to his subjects. Stott's chronicle is infected with the type of superficial thinking and weak-minded analysis that an overemphasis on "authenticity" and the "universality" of feelings created in the culture of the thirties...

Author: By William E. Forbath, | Title: Smiling Sharecroppers | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Chronic Shortsight...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Probably the best explanation for this chronic shortsight is simply that a studying undergraduate is an awfully dull subject. A student closing his book of Greek paradigms is far less interesting than one who goes to the club to break beer bottles, or one who goes down to the field to slap backs

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

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