Word: stuffs
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...always be times a freshman needs to know something and we can't offer adequate advice. The point is to diminish the number of such situations." And Moses concedes the FDO gets mixed results for its efforts. "Some days I think there's no place else where such good stuff is happening. Other days, it feels like the back of my hand," he says...
Rivers is troubled by what he perceives as a lack of "real sophisticated stuff going on." At Harvard, he sees a lot of rote recitation but very little serious inquiry, and he hopes this will change. He says he wishes to write and teach after he graduates, and stresses that, despite its problems, he enjoys Harvard, likes many of the people here and sees a lot of potential for growth. He also likes the living arrangements. After all, "I'm eating better now than I have in ten years," he says...
Zito, who said "Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff" exemplified "escapism versus whatever its opposite is," indicated his two favorite lines from the poem were: "Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's waste...
Still, Hook is at his keenest at war with ideas or with historians. Arnold Toynbee's pious but inexact theories, T.S. Eliot's elitist culture of the future, Alger Hiss's claim of innocence - these are the stuff of enduring debate, and even when his case is exaggerated, Hook never fails to stimulate or enlighten. He is less successful when he praises. John Dewey's writings are described in dust-jacket prose: "chock-full of fruitful insights" and at times he can sound like Kahlil Gibran: "Democracy is like love in this: It cannot be brought...
STAGING THIS hyper-intellectual verse play is a risky venture as best in these postlapsarian times. Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...