Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiring and annoying, it also produces its pleasures. Calvin Trillin is one of them. Among columnists today he has the most highly developed sense of how the swirling currents of history are usually the scene of the common mans belly-flop. It is a talent that prompts him to write sentences like, "My grandfather grew up in one of those European towns that used to change countries every week or ten days and the only claim to distinction I ever heard him make was that he had deserted two separate armies...
...LAST TIME Erich Segal '58 got the urge to write at length about his alma mater, he produced Love Story, and Freshman Week hasn't been the same since...
Since Harry is about to graduate, he had no alternative but to write a letter about his editorial disagreements. But were he a freshman, sophomore, or junior, he could have enjoyed two, more effective options to shake up the Forum. He could have dived for the nearest Centrex, called 498-2101, and immediately become a member of the editorial board for next year. Or he could have jogged to Lamont or Hilles, marveled at the brown plastic submission boxes, and stuffed them full of the most "adventurous" papers he has written...
...couse no one should be required to write "politically correct" term papers. But the President of the Forum, who claims that essays "were chosen to represent a range of academic disciplines," clearly complied the selections with a very narrow and conservative outlook on what constitutes quality and what is appropriate in academic writing. Perhaps these papers are their own best defense. But what of the hundred others rejected by the Forum? Were there no worthy hard social science or Women's Studies papers among them? The Forum at least attempts to excuse itself for excluding natural science papers as being...
...legally free himself from his conspicuously unfaithful wife. Eliot's scandalous but happy liaison with Lewes produces few letters, because for 24 years the couple are hardly ever out of each other's sight. Still, Eliot's correspondence is full of references to the man who insists that she write fiction and who encourages his self- doubting and often depressed companion, novel after novel. In gratitude she chooses his first name for her pseudonym, and her last because "Eliot was a good mouth-filling, easily-pronounced word...