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...quarter-century. The year 1914 echoed to the guns of August, and the tenth edition of Bartlett's vibrated with new quotations from foreigners: Lewis Carroll, Nietzsche, Shaw, George Eliot (also, belatedly, Thoreau's Walden, but still no Hawthorne or Melville). The '20s and '30s brought yet another revolution in literary sensibilities, and new Editor Christopher Morley decided in 1937 that the best rule for choosing a quotation was simply his own taste. "We have tried to make literary power the criterion rather than width and vulgarity of fame," he wrote. Morley's view...
...Kelly nose to those handsome features. Her hair has declared war on itself. She hunches over her food as if protecting it from invaders, and swallows champagne in one gulp, as if it had an egg in it. She moves like an awkward little girl who in her mid-30s is still Daddy's favorite. She is very dear...
...promoted to something of a cultural hero. That elevation was not so odd as it first appeared. Soviet espionage, after all, was no fiction: wartime thieves of atomic secrets had been tried and convicted in federal courts. Nor was the Gulag a fantasy; as early as the '30s Stalin's murderous intent had been revealed. The "Red Menace" has been revised downward many times, but a generation ago there were many non-hysterical, unxenophobic Americans who found Communist rhetoric and performance to be morally squalid, and who deserved better than the work of self-aggrandizing Congressmen and sycophantic...
...fiction. But he is also a sprinter; his poignant and ironic short stories have been anthologized for more than 30 years. Bradbury's latest book is a highly personal selection of those works: Martian adventures, nostalgic reminiscences about small-town Midwestern life in the '20s and '30s, and several evocative anecdotes about Ireland. But its best pieces remain the tales that made the author's reputation: chillingly understated stories about a familiar world where it is always a few minutes before midnight on Halloween, and where the unspeakable and unthinkable become commonplace...
FACULTY members and administrators regularly cite that reason to explain why Harvard's associate professors in the social sciences and humanities almost never receive promotions to tenured positions. Harvard demands proven excellence in its scholars; excellence takes a long time to prove; as a result, young scholars (in their 30s) rarely have had sufficient time to demonstrate the outstanding qualities that Harvard seeks. Science departments can more easily tenure young academics, the reasoning goes, because their rising stars usually make names for themselves early in their careers. In essence, the tenure system here has been a non-risk business...