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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace, and finds himself in the employ of the CIA, which has photographs of him in various compromising positions and can black-mail him into anything. Beyond the cruder forms of imperialism in which he finds himself inexorably involved, though, there is an imperialism of a more basic sort as well. Alan has always assumed that learning and modernity are good things, and his most straight-forward and untainted Peace Corps sort of mission is to spread them to less advanced people like the Xixi. The tribe seems to be ripe for this kind of thing--it spends its time...
...What sort of relationship does such a man have with himself? Long before he turned to psychology--which was not until his twenties--he kept careful diaries of interesting occurrences. He hoped to be a writer then and composed poems and short stories by the notebook. Wittingly or not, almost all had a common protagonist--himself. Skinner was preoccupied with himself throughout his youth, but only as an alien object, a specimen. (In his first experiment with behavior modification, he invented a Rube Goldberg contraption to raise a "Hang Your Pajamas" sign in his doorway when he stepped...
Marquand said he hopes the Faculty will introduce legislation for some sort of amendment to the new regulations, but said "pretty much nobody will actually be prevented from graduating with honors...
...this irreverence suggests that Donleavy is himself a sort of Sebastian Dangerfield, and in fact The Ginger Man was written with highly autobiographical intentions. In the 25 years since its publication, however, Donleavy has changed considerably. The dandyish narrator of The Unexpurgated Code is far removed from Donleavy the young novelist...
English E is billed as an "advanced" course in the Courses of Instruction catalog, and most students who choose to take it bring some sort of background in the language to the course. While Dow notes that no specific proficiency level is required to take the course, she adds that English E "is not a basic, intensive language course...