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Ford, the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern iHstory, continued teaching half a load even while he served as dean. He will resume teaching in the Fall...
Some people are going crazy at Harvard. Those who really flip out end up in Stillman or McLean's. But others, not quite mad enough, have to hang around here until they freak out and someone notices...
...Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences beginning July 1. Dunlop has been acting Dean of the Faculty since February 1. Dean Franklin L. Ford will return next Fall from a leave of absence to resume his post as McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
...that I could write the way he could: but I absorbed his diction the way I absorbed the rest of Harvard. And along with his speech. I began to mimic Lowell's aimless guilt and sense of inadequacy; I became tortured, at eighteen. I wanted to check into McLean. I didn't know why any more than I knew what Robert Lowell was talking about, but the vagueness was part of the attraction of the posture. I felt hermetic and estranged and incomprehensible, and that was fine. I was expressing myself in pure poetry, and if only the elite understood...
...illustrations in McLean's book enforce the point. They indicate an obsession with certain fundamental themes: the phallus, sometimes decorated with wings (an accessory, incidentally, commonly found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more erotic than sentimental. Typically, the heart symbol, if it survives long enough on the wall, gets further embellishment; someone adds an arrow, and then later another resourceful artist converts the heart into a rude approximation of the female posterior...