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...Tourists-with the possible exception of the Germans-no longer have the ambition to plow through such weighty tomes as the Guides Bleus, which describe every stone and tree in fine print. "To sell," says one London publisher, "you have to put out atmospherics. You have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides to four European cities...
...impossibility of choosing among the letters dictated the decision to hold the drawing, Susan S. Olson, Dean of Residence, announced yesterday. She said that all letters were well-written and had offered valid reasons for moving off-campus, but the Administration did not feel it could judge the relative values of these reasons...
...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...
Robert Allison's "Conservative Philosophy and Pseudo-Conservatism" effectively dissociates conservative thought from the racist mentality, saying in brief that conservatives think while racists only feel. It is carefully constructed and fairly well-written, far clearer than Mr. Allison's soggy editorial...
Conection (Visual Arts at Harvard) has come of age as a Harvard magazine. Its current issue on urban design is well-written, attractive, and consistently interesting to an architectural layman. Happily, it does not attempt to blanket the problem of urban decline and sprawl. It does offer differing points of view on specific problems...