Word: yales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale hits its jackpot
...college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese...
...offered a convincing answer, certainly not the participants themselves. Only last week a West Berlin court convicted a former SS doctor of having murdered scores of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria-"sometimes out of pure boredom," said the judge. For Yale Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who has spent much of his professional life examining disaster, understanding the doctors of the Holocaust has now become a particularly grim challenge...
...grow up to them. While this process takes place, another pleasure is promised. Mirabell foretells a concluding sequel, when the angels themselves will speak. Since Merrill, 53, already writes like one, it will be hard to wait for what they have to say. NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman Yale University; 53 pages; $8.95 hardcover, $3.95 paperback
...Yale Series of Younger Poets has produced such distinguished alumni as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser. This year's winner, selected from a field of 475, is Leslie Ullman, 31, a college teacher now living in Kansas City, and she has already cleared the first two hurdles facing all beginning poets: having something to say and saying it well. Ullman stakes a claim on the borderline between the real and the imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have...