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...incredible. The novel is not helped by an overworked style that always seems to be asking the reader to finger the rich material of the prose. In Steinbeck's naively symbolic handling, the world of money and business is reduced to a branch of witchcraft, thus vitiating any valid point that Steinbeck might have hoped to make about the state of U.S. ethics. Asked to define business at one point, Ethan calls it "everybody's crime." The guilt for this novel is somewhat easier to localize...
...Harvard Crimson, which tells itself that it reflects student interests, was worried last year about the general academic trend of the College. "The College does not provide alternatives to academic success except in extracurricular terms," said a typical editorial. Was Harvard raising only future teachers? Was it offering a valid picture of business or professional life, asked the Crimeds...
...again supported the will of the people-as that will is expressed in acts passed by the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures. Doing so, he has become the leader of a bloc of four Justices who believe in "judicial restraint"-meaning that the court should support the valid acts of Congress or other governing bodies, even when the Justices personally, politically or philosophically disagree with them. The other three in the Frankfurter group are Tom C. Clark, Charles E. Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan...
...defend the walls we have erected at the edge of college by saying that they delimit only "formal" education. But suppose even that this implication about later and non-formal education were as valid as we pretend to think--by what logic would this justify encapsulation of the university? Do we believe that we all know, when we are 19, what we want to learn? Do we believe that we all shall find, in our careers and communities and acquaintances, stimulus to intelligent self-education? Do we have so little faith, really, in the tools of the university that...
Reading all these learned and badly written papers in a sitting has brought on my tantrum, which is really just a simple case of grader's gout. Such is my curmudgeonly state, that if I see one more sentence of the "evaluating conceptologically valid methodologies in the light of historical analysis, on the one hand as it were, and on the other, in meshing frames of reference, so to speak" variety, then I shall take the name of Talcott Parsons in vain...