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...Boris Pasternak's publishers hope for with his slim, 1934 story The Last Summer (see below); similarly, Vladimir Nabokov's literary handlers hope that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) will acquire Lolita's gilt by association. The first book Nabokov wrote in English (his workshop was the bathroom of his one-room Paris flat), Sebastian Knight has a low sex quotient and no nymphets. Instead, it is devoted to themes that novelists seem to be born with: the question of identity, the nature of reality, the task of the writer. Nabokov's treatment...
...quite a different approach is that of David Reisman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and his associates. They tend to see the Program as an opportunity for true "experiments"--for trying something without precedent in previous Harvard experience. Their plans diverge from those of other workshop-leaders in several important particulars. In the first place, the Riesman group is resolved to draw students of varying interests and aptitudes. Their hope is to bring together (in six workshops, with a total capacity of 48 people) "the physicist and the economist, the astronomer and the humanist, the historian...
...will steer the group into the "core reading," then will return to re-examine the original dilemma. An important part of Riesman's program is "cross-fertilization" through weekly dinners, where students will meet other staffmen and students from other sections, as well as guest speakers, and occasional joint workshop meet...
...workshop leaders, William Alfred, associate professor of English, plans to raise from eight to twelve the number of freshmen in his "informal seminar in literature and writing." Applications for Alfred's group, which will take the place of Gen Ed A, originally number 60, and he will chose the final dozen from 20 still under consideration...
With the exception of the workshops headed by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, no seminar has made final selection of any applicants. That task is now in the hands of each workshop leader, who will interview the most likely candidates during Registration Week...