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...strain of racial and religious prejudice underlying Prof. Kilson's remarks which must not go unnoticed by any thinking member of the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Prof. Kilson owes every Jewish and black student an apology for his advocacy of the abrogation of their first amendment rights and for the sour notes of prejudice apparent in his letter. Stephen Alton Saperstein...
Fear of Flying possessed a bawdy exuberance. John Updike even found it Chaucerian. But How to Save Your Own Life is marinated in sour juices: dissolving marriage, curdled fame, Hollywood's treachery. "Ain't it awful?" the reader mutters. Erica/Isadora uses the book to settle old scores against her husband ("I married a monster, I think") and a hustling Hollywood producer who, she says, flimflammed her on the film rights to the bestselling first novel. Before she gets around to making the final break with Dr. Wing, Isadora has a lesbian affair, checks in with a brace...
Another factor that may have caused some church members to sour on Edwards was his adoption of a year-old "non-Caucasian" baby. A New York Times reporter quoted Billy Carter as saying of the adoption: "It was 99% of the preacher's problem. If you ask me, some of those Christians ought to be thrown to the lions." Billy later said that he had been "sort of misquoted. Most Plains residents dismissed Billy's charge. "He was just poppin' off," said one woman. "Why, the wife of the head of the board of deacons...
...same reason, comes late in Ensor's career, 1915: a portrait of his mother's corpse. At first glance she is mere background, an almost monochrome rumpling of the sheets behind a still life of medicine bottles; to the extent that paint can catch the sour, carbolic odor of a virtuous deathbed, it is done here...
When Mark Twain visited Vassar in 1885, he had, he said, a "ghastly" time and thought the college president "a sour old saint." But now, whether Twain's ghost likes it or not, he is at Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust...