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According to Weinberg, it was the A-plus in English??along with joining The Advocate sophomore year and winning the National Short Story Contest in 1941—that gave Mailer something of a cause: writing...
...best pieces over the last five years, some of which were first published in the Lampoon—he only has one year to complete it.As for the rest of his time spent at Harvard and away from the ‘Poon, Rich—who concentrated in English??enthusiastically admits that he loved his time and classes here.“I took a lot of religion classes at Harvard. I love it. They were my favorite classes,” he says. “My favorite professor at Harvard was Professor [of the Comparative...
...that his lyrics come from poetry written by others because he doesn’t have as much faith in his writing skills as in his musicianship. Of course, good poetry doesn’t always make good lyrics, and the lyrics he chooses (at least in Spanish and English??I can’t speak to his selection of Hebrew lyrics) often show the kind of over-wrought balladeering that is endemic to folk music. To try to give you an idea, a sizeable chunk of his songs are in alternating quatrains; the hook to one song...
...lawsuit against Princeton last year for having the gall not to admit him, allegedly because of the admission committee’s prejudice against Asian Americans. The article, co-written with Asian students on the Daily Princetonian’s staff, went on to complain—in broken English??Princeton’s latent antipathy towards admitting Asian Americans. “I the super smart Asian,” it says. “Princeton the super dumb college, not accept me. I get angry and file a federal civil rights complaint against Princeton for rejecting...
...involves the denizens of the small Romanian village, Glod—or “mud” in English??which was used as Borat’s hometown. They are planning to sue filmmakers for misrepresenting both them and the deal they were offered—that is, to do what they were told and get filmed doing it. If their claims are true—they have yet to be denied—at no point during the filming process was any effort made to overcome the language barrier and explain what was going...