Word: suspected
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Mosaic is fun to read, because it presents a cultural point of view. I suspect that Jews who come to Harvard are unlike members of other American minority cultures in that they often rediscover the value of their heritage here. I'm not talking now about a belief in God (an embarrassing topic at Harvard); I'm simply concerned with cultural identity. For other groups--like Catholics--Harvard is still an engine of mindless assimilation, cutting people off from their past...
Movie number one is the thriller. A young, destitute American has been commissioned by a wealthy Californian to lure his expatriate son Phillip away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of his body and in a dangerous game of impersonation, seeks to substitute himself for his victim...
...endowed a generous loan and scholarship fund (up to $295,000,000 in four years), and stipulated that the grants were earmarked for students whose loyalties and beliefs generaly coincide with those of the benefactor. Others said that students--the academic community--should not be singled out as suspect and that the loyalty provisions were--in the words of Senator John F. Kennedy--"worse than futile." It did not prevent subversives from taking the money, but alienated the loyal...
...called the practical, political morals of this fearful question genuinely deserve investigation." After all, said Alsop-who does his doomsaying with a stiff upper lip-worse was yet to come: "The rule is that you must always be ready for the world to go on, even if you suspect the world may end next week...
...Connolly's "It is closing time in the gardens of the West. From now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair." The quality of Beckett's despair assays high; it is the quantity that is suspect. There is so much of it, and most of it is unearned. His characters are not scarred by life, but scared by life into a paralysis of will. By claiming total irresponsibility for their lives ("One can do nothing''), they all but forfeit the compassion they might arouse...