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...seminar, which meets at 9 p.m. on Thursday in Bertram Hall, will focus on "black humor as a modern mode of response to experience," Keeney said. Students in the seminar will read works by such writers as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett. They also may discuss some of Kafka's writings...
...Black students feel alienated from, even neglected within, Harvard; but so, as we know, do many whites. Black students seek and expect "relevance" from their Harvard education, but obviously they are not alone, at this time, in voicing such an expectation. However, the black experience is not simply a mode of the general student experience; it is different, and not merely in degree of intensity, from that of Harvard's white students...
...generally similar tastes. They are not eight millionaires and a plumber, as Eisenhower's original choices were irreverently-but accurately-described. Though some are wealthy, most live unostentatiously. While one, Red Blount, is a qualified jet pilot, none of them is by any stretch a jet-setter. Their mode of living is mainly suburban middleclass, with strong emphasis on family life and informal entertaining at home. A possible exception to the pattern is New York Investment Banker Maurice Stans, the new Secretary of Commerce, who lives in a Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park and hunts big game...
...DONALD BROOKS, of the four designers, is the most outspoken and persistent in his criticism of Pat Nixon's current mode. "Maybe now that she has arrived," he says, "she can achieve a feeling of calm and contentment. She can stop considering herself in terms of the average and create her own style. Her little pink coat is too pedestrian an approach. Fluff just isn't becoming on her. She needs an overhauling...
...such battle began after World War II and during the 1950s, when the so-called Beat poets rebelled against both society and the academic, formalist mode of poetry. Three schools of revolutionary poets were founded: the San Francisco school of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder; the Black Mountain school of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley; and the New York school of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. Basically, the San Francisco school represented a fresh imagism combined with oriental influences; the Black Mountain group leaned toward an intellectual eclecticism typical of Ezra...