Word: zonker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YALE at PRINCETON--Carmen Cozza tries to salvage a Zonker Harris-type of season. YALE 31, PRINCETON...
ALONGSIDE XEROX COPIES of three much reworked manuscripts, James's Portrait of a Lady, Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, and two poems by E.E. Cummings, the new Writing Center in Hilles Library displays a Doonesbury cartoon on its bulletin board. In the cartoon Zonker Harris is banging away at his typewriter. "Man, have I got a lot of papers due," he says to B.D., who is watching over his shoulder. "Most problems, like answers, have finite resolutions," Zonker writes. "The basis for these resolutions contains many of the ambiguities which condition man daily struggles with. Accordingly, most problematic solutions...
...Dunno," says Zonker. "I haven't decided...
Asked what he would tell a student who came to him with a paper like Zonker's, Larry Weinstein, one of the two organizers of the Writing Center thought for a moment and said quietly "I would, in due course, get around to saying that it really didn't make much sense...
...Weinstein is not particularly worried about Johnny, at least not the Johnny at Harvard. For the most part he just needs help getting started. Now, as for Zonker, that's another matter...