Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last spring, after your address to the Quincy House Senior Dinner, I wrote to you on the subject of South Africa. At the time I was an undergraduate, and you apparently did not see any need to respond. Perhaps now that I have joined "the society of educated men and women," not to mention that of alumni, my thoughts will be considered worthy of attention, or at least of acknowledgment...
Joel Migdal, associate professor of Government and a native of Israel, will discuss this subject--the Middle East, not star wars--tomorrow evening at 8:45 p.m. in the Philips Brooks House parlor. His topic will be "Can the West Bank Arabs Accept Begin's Autonomy...
...could be such a gem and the other such a turd. With all that's happening to Susan in her career and romantic life, it's not clear why she would feel such an acute sense of loss over friendship with Ann, or why that is supposedly the primary subject of the movie...
Gann would be the perfect subject for a memoir if gentlemanly reserve did not glaze over his confessions when he describes the people he has known. He gives a vivid account of how it was to see the dome of the Taj Mahal from several feet away, but is woefully reticent, for in stance, when he encounters another monument, Actor John Wayne. Chapters given to his divorce and remarriage show little more than the rough shape of a life. Only when Gann describes the drowning of his oldest son, who was chief mate on an unseaworthy tanker, does uncalculated emotion...
...legends of King Arthur are a natural subject for novelists. T.H. White produced an eloquent contemporary version in The Once and Future King, and only two years ago, the late John Steinbeck's dull but competent retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century compilation, was published. Now Thomas Berger offers still another rex redux, in the form of "a legendary novel." He might have done better to call it a haphazard parody...