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Why Harvard Hates Harvard Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969 Roger Rosenblatt Little, Brown / 234 pages / $24.95 REVIEWED BY Christopher Caldwell Through the 1960's, students...
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CHILDREN OF WAR Roger Rosenblatt / Anchor Press / $13.95 Jack Beatty You are fishing off a pier in Haiphong harbor when a boat loaded with people sails past your perch; you leap for it; and 52...
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Roger Rosenblatt The Great American Column An American Family Meets Ozzie and Harriet The life and times of the William C. Loud family have become an important part of the popular culture, have...
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during which he was ill fromtime to time, was spent at home, reading, taking his daily walks for most of these years, and still seeing many visitors. Mr. Truman spent nine years at the Library,...
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Roger Rosenblatt The Great American Column Nostalgia as One of the Fine Arts One sure sign that a cultural idea has become a national craze is when people begin to make money off of it. We knew...
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THE NEWS FROM AMERICA The grandmother of a friend of mine assures him that "today's newspaper wraps tonight's fish." Her maxim is meant as a kind of consolation, but it also goes to the essential...
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The Great American Column Laughingstock Ever since I was first told that he was a funny man, I have been trying, earnestly, to laugh at Art Buchwald. In the beginning I would take his stuff...
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The Great American Column The People's Choice By now we take it as a national truism, that nobody ever knows anything about politics. We hear disclaimers voiced loud and clear by our various...
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Television and Popular Taste Consider it a given that television is in terrible shape, that among the various instruments of communication, including the telephone, including obscene phone calls,...
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The Last Picture Show and The Next The Last Picture Show has been a success for a long enough time by now to be considered fair game for some unfavorable comment. I'm not particularly interested in...
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title, The Conservative Mainstream, describes Frank at work on a column. "Once a fortnight promptly after sunset, Frank Meyer rises from his breakfast and prepares to defend the West." Frank...
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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Roger Rosenblatt When I Was a college senior debating whether to apply to law...
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Coming Apart
(June 1997)
