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...Thank you for your story "The View from the Bus" [March 13]. This is to me the heart of integrated school experiences-that those involved, i.e., the students, will learn, given time and little interference, how to live in a multiethnic world. Thirteen-year-old John Kindig gets my vote for "Human of the Year." With youth like him, we may make it-if he can only teach the rest of us, in time, what it's all about...
...fishing shack he runs the risk of destroying his talent, since he must dirty his hands in the corruptions of the real world if he is to remain vital. J.D. Salinger does his writing in a bomb shelter in New Hampshire, and he hasn't produced anything readable in thirteen years. We just don't have writers anymore who can lead public lives and still recall those ancient sages who, when an enemy took the town, walked out of the gate empty handed, without a care for the morrow, (The Hype Machine could fix their wagon...
Newby, who poured in 32 points against Harvard two weeks ago, kept the Big Red within seven at half-time, 52-45, on the strength of nine-for-thirteen from the floor and three-of-three from the line for 21 points...
Mayakovsky had joined the Bolshevik party at thirteen; been arrested and jailed for subversive activity by fifteen; and emerged from prison at sixteen determined to become a poet. In 1910, he entered a recently formed Futurist circle, much influenced by Marinetti and the Italians. But from the beginning the Russian Futurists were more given to formal literary experimentation and less given to aesthetic polemic than the Italians. And when Marinetti arrived in Russia in early 1914 to sign the Russians on to his own Futurist Program, he was rebuffed...
...Harvard Advocate, February, 1972, is a compilation of thirteen respects to Agee, of which six have already been published. Of the six, two are pieces of Agee's own writing, one is the "James Agee in 1936" by Walker Evans which appeared in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, one is a collection of reprints of the photographs by Walker Evans which were shown last winter in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, another is the "Chronology" which was taken from the Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, and another...