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...certain you will agree that some semblance of accuracy is required for good reportage. An accurate, well-written article is important not only to the general readership but also to the athletes involved. It is with this object in mind that I must criticize your coverage to date of the Harvard lightweight crew...
...could be) an invidious comparison between Pound's time and ours; but there is a point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points to make about what's wrong with the tendencies of contemporary poetry-writers. He complains about the endless, pointless description that bad writers insist on producing and after...
...only flaw in an otherwise perceptive, well-written editorial entitled "Defeating Doctors" (Feb. 21) is the paragraph down-grading the importance of organic chemistry and other introductory science courses in producing competent practising physicians. From my brief experience in medical school, I must admit that Harvard's notorious organic chemistry course helped me understand some of the mechanisms and basic principles of biochemistry. Biochemistry, in turn, is important because medical science is exploring with increasing success the processes of life and of disease on a molecular level. To know what lab tests to order, how to interpret their results...
Thanks to your well-written article, my mind is at least a bit more open to Tango and all its elements. Bertolucci will have my price of admission...
...BEST THIS IS half a book. The Unknown Orwell traces the development of a man into a writer, but does so without any real examination of what kind of writer he became. As far as it goes, it is interesting, informative and well-written biography including obscure bits of information about living in lower upper middle class England, or administering the Burmese. But it so completely ducks making any critical assessment of Orwell as a writer, political analyst or social commentator that it's negligible as criticism...