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...impact of the graduate school complex on the College. At first, Riesman says, the presence of graduate schools improved the college atmosphere and gave college a new level of seriousness. But in the middle of a graduate community an elite college such as Harvard "suffers from a surfeit of its virtues." College life becomes "dehydrated"; nothing can be done or prized for its own sake because each step is preparatory to the next...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with his A Thousand Days made an art form out of instant history. Not too far behind-and duller because more self-consciously definitive-was Ted Sorensen's Kennedy. But for every excellent Kennedy book, there were at least seven sloppily sentimental ones, and the surfeit went so far that Monocle magazine's Victor Navasky struck home with his satirical suggestion for a brand-new title: "Taxi to Greatness, the story of the cab driver who drove young John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier to the movies on their first date...
...Blaze Starr, with her West Virginia accent and witty and predictably colorful repartee. Her complement of the tools of her trade, incidently, can only be described in terms of surfeit or inundation...
...works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin, who wants him for herself. But he cannot face the supreme sacrifice she demands and winds up in a catatonic state in her broom closet. By profession, Author Chopping is a commercial artist-he designed the dust...
Three years ago, however, the Masters, confronted by an avalanche of first place applications to the newly-built Houses, agreed to allow under-subscribed House "raid" their over-popular brothers. Masters with a surfeit of aplications must now open their files to a limited number of raids after they have filled only 30 per cent of their House's quota. Then they resume filling up their own Houses. The process goes on to the stages of the second and third choice until the Houses reach 70 per cent capacity...