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There are two good short stories in the latest Advocate, one by graduating Bob Cumming, the other by ex-undergraduate Alan Broughton. There is also a story by Sallie Bingham which won the Advocate Prize, and five poems by assorted authors...
...Sallie Bingham seems to be winning all kinds of prizes, including not only the Dana Reed Prize ("Winter Term") and the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Prize ("The Riding Lesson"), but also the Advocate Prize. Unfortunately, her vision of "Luke" has been choked by the tedious semi-genteel mannerism of her situation. As a result, this new story has almost none of the lure of "Winter Term" or the intensity of "The Riding Lesson." Just why it was given a prize is hard to discern, since it is not Miss Bingham's best, nor the best in the Advocate...
...Sallie Bingham '58, of Gilman House and Glenview, Ky., has won the Dana Reed Prize, given annually for the best undergraduate writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication...
...best story in the issue is, I think, Sallie Bingham's Winter Term. It is best because it is the most story, the least game or puzzle. It is not an exceptional story. It is neither subtle nor wise nor delicate nor beautiful nor revealing. It is both entertaining (because it is full of sex), and moving (because it is full of people). The people are not real, but they are infuriating. By the end of the story you are likely to be in a rage--perhaps at Miss Bingham, possibly at yourself, probably at the characters. But something will...
...Miss Bingham uses the dramatic technique, Jonathan Kozol does not, at least so far as I am concerned. I am quite sure that there is a plot in his novel, but it is not clear upon one reading, and that reading does not inspire another. There are striking passages in this phantasy of juveniles, and there are yards of obscure phrases and intentions just waiting for a clever explicator with a firm feeling for the Freudian groundrules...