Word: splinteredness
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Many of Harvard's artistic students may dream of big, well-lit galleries, packed houses and a University that isn't as splintered and business-like in its approach to their talents. At least there's one weekend that doesn't provide much room for complaint.
"Jazz has unhappily splintered into hostile camps, musically and racially. The spirit and sound of each variety of jazz is carefully analyzed, isolated and pronounced a 'bag.' Within each bag, imitation of the 'daddy' spreads through the ranks like summer fires." --Feb. 28, 1964, from a cover story on Thelonious...
For all his slashing and burning, Willes pays homage to the lofty ideals of journalism in a sprawling megalopolis. "This is a very splintered place to live, a remarkably diverse place with nothing in common. We'd like to be that thing in common, building bridges of understanding," he says...
However, members of the PALC who were already inside Mass. Hall managed to remain there for another 153 hours, according to the 1972 Crimson Commencement issue. Meanwhile, the splintered group had reached the ROTC building, found no one there and marched on to Littauer, the government building.
But Franzen's gloomy observation has not deflected him or three other gifted writers of his acquaintance: Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus...