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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I don't know if it is because institutions seem to be crumbling about us, or because what happened in the past appears embarrassing, but this book strikes me as very unreal. The Advocate simply isn't like that any more. These earnest poems, this heritage! To think that all...
Still, The Advocate is America's oldest college literary magazine, and the only publication at Harvard to have preserved its reputation for 103 years, so there are reasons to endure. Plagued especially over the past decade by financial crises, it has managed to survive them all by means of affluent...
WHEN I ARRIVED at the Advocate House two years ago, there was a certain austerity to the proceedings. Several of us were elected in the Fall, met Updike, read poems in the late afternoon, and stylized ourselves. Things were taking their course, and it was acknowledged that some of us...
Patrick J. Ryan's criticism of John G. Short's reporting of the Weathermen in Chicago (letter, November 19) is falsely directed. What Short wrote was clearly not the product of his "fantasy-ridden" mind, but was out there in a real-life world that Ryan probably doesn't believe...
There was definitely an aura of Woodstock over the vast and not-so-silent majority of the crowd. People were more willing than ever before to help each other out. And all this was in contrast to the up-tightness and lack of humanity shown by the government and police...