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Yale moved a step in that direction last month when a faculty committee recommended junking the tender-care treatment for freshmen that was aimed at soothing first-year trauma, and urged early research opportunities for gifted students. To increase "learned men in our society," the faculty wants qualified students to earn M.A.s along with B.A.s at the end of four years. As it is, Yale abounds with enterprising young scholars. Not untypical is Senior Nicholas J. Gubser, 23, founder of the Anthropology Club, who recently spent a 15-month leave living with an Eskimo family in Arctic Alaska. Last week...
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A lovingly exhaustive biography of a writer whose talent was a diamond very nearly as big as the Ritz, but whose life was a far from tender nightmare...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. The story of a Carolina country love for a young man who often seems to love motorcycles more makes a wise and tender first novel...
...real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate apologias for slavery. George Fitzhugh, a Virginia lawyer, urged in Cannibals All! and Sociology for the South the enslavement of whites as well as Negroes for the good of civilization. "We conclude...
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A lovingly exhaustive biography of a writer whose talent was a diamond very nearly as big as the Ritz, but whose life was a far from tender nightmare...