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Joseph L. Featherstone
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Pogo's Black Book
The animals in Walt Kelly's Pogo books are more human than most people I know, and this makes even their
'Freedom Rides'
(The following represents a minority opinion of the Editorial Board on the "reverse Freedom Rides" discussed here yesterday.) A busload
The Yearbook
When I am an old grad and my bones hurt and I vote Republican, I'll probably enjoy this year's yearbook.
Three Plays
At the very end of his life, Yeats returned to the theatre. He was still haunted by a desire to
Peace Decorum
Those Hasty Pudding guys sure have a lot of fun. Every year they put on a musical, and some of
The Literary Left
Writing recent history can become a painful exercise in intellectual humility. There is no quicker way to discover how much
The Savage Eye
Movie reviewers are pretty hard to find during exam period, so this review of The Savage Eye comes too late
The Rest Is Silence
Sometimes an imaginative Orson Welles turns out a modern-dress Julius Caesar that amounts to something more substantial than a set
T. S. Eliot
When he was a younger and a crueler man, T. S. Eliot once sketched himself: How unpleasant to meet Mr.
The Rain Never Falls
Think of men fighting in a fallout shelter after a nuclear attack. A gruesome situation, and a brilliant one for
Massachusetts Superior Court Bans Sale of Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer'
To the emancipated, it will seem that ancient whiffs of brimstone still linger on Boston streets. And those who like
Mosaic
Mosaic is a confident and unpretentious little magazine put out by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation, and its fall issue demonstrates
'Tropic of Cancer' Trial Closes Its Second Session
The second day in the obscenity trial of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer opened yesterday with a strange request from
Critics Testify for 'Tropic of Cancer'
Avowedly smashing every possible convention, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is a strange book, and a difficult one to discuss.
Adams House Journal of Social Sciences
Before I start my tantrum about the quality of Harvard course writing, let me first say that all the papers
