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...according to many students, is utterly meaningless--both slackers and strivers get it. "You know what they say," remarks Adam L. Cohen '96. "B's are easy. A's and C's are hard." Lump says that "the concept that a person would put off all their work until reading period and get a B+-- which is the same grade that a lot of people will get who have consistently done their work--just illustrates the incredible range of quality that's found within...
...again the suggestion is made that what he is writing is mainstream fiction. Or even, in the case of Vox (1992) -- his long transcription of an entirely satisfying anonymous phone-sex relationship -- that he is producing something like satire, driven by something like a point of view. A concept for our times: how safe can sex get, not just from infection but from imperfection, and of course from conception, though not from Baby Bell? His new novel, The Fermata (Random House; 303 pages; $21), is somewhat less elevated. A fermata, in music, is the extension of a note, chord...
...equivalent of G-rated "family" opera) did not preclude its later phenomenal success, as more and more Europeans set aside a traditional sense of morality to see the intrinsic value of the work. Sanitization of plots so as to protect moral sensibilities seems to be a distinctly American concept...
...look back on these three-and-a-half yearsand I have no concept of how I did what I did,"DeMay says. "It seems like I did so much. I don'tremember if I ever slept...
Mark isn't troubled by the concept of earning money by fathering children. "After all," he says, "isn't life al about spreading your genes?" Yes, he concedes, in 30 years, when he has a family of his own, he may regret the decision But right now, he doesn't see it as morally questionable...