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Before an audience of wide-eyed freshmen, Per Wästberg ’55, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, conjured images of Harvard in a different age last night...
John Updike, Henry Kissinger, and e.e. cummings ’15 roamed the Yard, walking in and out of classes while T.S. Eliot lectured in a nearby building. And holed up in Widener, surrounded by the translated literature not found in his course books, was Wästberg...
...stberg was invited to speak to freshmen by Harvard Foundation President S. Allen Counter—the two are old friends—and the Freshman Dean’s Office...
...questions were] quite wide-ranged. It’s exciting that young students are not afraid to ask anything,” Wästberg said afterward. “Swedish students would be much more timid...
Among the many rewards of the congress was the chance for unknowns to meet such lions as Nobel Prizewinners Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wstberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the 34-room apartment of Saul Steinberg, the takeover artist. There was also a party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple...