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That's from Native Intelligence by Raymond Sokolov '63 (first published in 1975, now available in a newly released paperback edition or in Widener under American Literature, level 5). What more? Read/Shouldn't Be Telling You This, by Mary Breasted '65, a book that includes this vignette...
There is a third explanation, one that Levine's book and the other Harvard novels consistently support. Levine, Sokolov, Breasted, and the rest of this particular school of writers, have conceived of sex at Harvard not as an act of Just of procreation but as an intellectual experience. These novels take place at the nation's most distinguished center of scholarship after all; when their characters become physically intimate, why should they grunt and grind like students at some safety school? This is Harvard, and when a couple feels frisky, they run to the library, or study an ancient Indian...
...retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...Sokolov is guided by this principle in describing Liebling's beginnings as the son of an affluent New York City furrier, a student in Paris during the '20s, newspaperman, war correspondent and three-time husband, lastly to the late short-story writer Jean Stafford. Wayward Reporter tells more about the writer's work than about his life. Yet Sokolov, a New York journalist and restaurant critic, conveys the essential craftsman and gourmand who sopped up the life around him with the same melancholy hunger he displayed at lunch...