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Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness...
Commencement week picks up steam today as the many events Wednesday and the solemn exercises Thursday approach. The University offers open house and tours at its new buildings constructed under the Program for Harvard College...
...Cliffie has abandoned "those wretched black stockings," is brighter than her Harvard counterpart, and lives in a predominantly masculine environment, about which, Arlen writes, "she tends to be keenly enthusiastic." The Girl With the Harvard Degree can be "downright solemn at times" about such serious matters as "Independence, Privacy, Personal Freedom, Maturity, and Being-Left-Alone...
...Massachusetts Bay Colony. The High Sheriff of Middlesex County and the Sheriff of Suffolk County will precede--in ceremonial dress--the procession of alumni and dignitaries as they walk through the ranks of the graduating seniors. And President Pusey will preside from the same Tudor chair used on this solemn occasion since the 18th century...
...TIME, May 25). Cried the United Party's J. Hamilton Russell: "This is one of the most evil, most cynical measures that have ever come before this honorable House." But the most eloquent attack on the bill was silent. It came from the rows of solemn women wearing black mourning sashes who last week kept a day and night vigil of protest outside Johannesburg's city hall and Cape Town's Parliament buildings...