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...Columbia English department tried to recapture the elusive qualities of a great teacher. Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, once awed by "the witchlike precision" of Trilling's mind, said that he was "an intellectual father." Added Beat Generation Poet Allen Ginsberg: "He had a sweet heart, a sad, solemn sweetness." Columbia Professor Emeritus Jacques Barzun, who collaborated with Trilling for 36 years in a course on cultural history, admired the way "his thoughts progressed in a rational manner from beginning to end." A student who took that Barzun-Trilling course remembers most vividly the moment when some unfortunate victim cited...
...fair-haired and soft-spoken Kubacki was unusually solemn Tuesday night. "It's been a good year," he said. "I'd like to do it all the way. What...
...that "if" is a large one, resting squarely on the word "throw." At yesterday's practive, a sweat-suited Kubacki went through the motions. But he was tossing, not throwing still solemn, as if the realization of his dream depends on forces over which he has no control. Once again Kubacki is waiting to get off the bench...
...wasn't too surprised by the serious, even solemn tone of most of the interviews. But Anne was surprised at "the guilt and the contortions" that came pouring out, and particularly surprised that they "were suffered equally by the men--the women had all the pressure not to do it, but the men had all the pressure to do it." And although obviously things have changed over the years and the chains of sexual repression have been loosened somewhat, Anne says she came to realize that things aren't as different now as they might seem...
...solemn pronouncements of these cloistered radical groups seem pretty ridiculous. But it appears that Harrington, in his anxiety to avoid ever appearing absurd again, has fallen prey to another pitfall. For the socialist there is always the danger of allowing one's political identity to be blurred, forgetting exactly what it is that makes a socialist's world-view different from that of people with a stake in capitalist institutions...