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...peeve: Harvard students are too quick. This is not usually considered a problem. Aren't we, after all, the few, the proud, and the chosen? We are chosen for intellectual skill and the ability to articulate our marvelous thoughts. Campus society puts a premium on wit; if you aren't funny, or at least interesting, you're dead in the water. If knowledge is good, being quick is better...
Unfortunately, the line between being quick and being sharp is a fine one. Knee-jerk wit beats a certain resemblance to a handgun in the possession of a child--you don't know whether it will go off, and you don't know who it may hit. Knee-jerk wit may go a long way toward explaining our reputation for arrogance. The image of the stuck in Harvard student has always bothered like too many of my colleagues to understand how we have managed to maintain this distressing image...
...sympathy. I rankly, I've been stuttering for a long time, and I'm used to it. Harvard students are not the only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would be by any unusual situation. Knee-jerk wit is a common reaction; however, the results of my unscientific survey reveal that more Harvard students react this way than do a random sample of those not blessed with Centers phones...
Like most postmodernists, Hollein says he is not a postmodernist. But as the Pritzker citation declared, he is "one who with wit and eclectic gusto draws upon the traditions of the New World as readily as upon those of the Old." Says Hollein: "I was never afraid to use materials in new contexts--plastics or alu- minum or marble, and all this together." Nowhere does he put more forms and materials together better than in his museum of contemporary art in Monchengladbach, West Germany. The Pritzker ostensibly honors a lifetime of work, but surely it is Monchengladbach that...
...honest If don't like math that much, and the Abstract, though it calls itself a great statistical undertaking, isn't really that at all. The book celebrates baseball and the obsession that some of us have with it, and does it with unusual wit and intelligence...