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...Dear Ms. Lonelyhearts...
...with style and economy. She knows how to relax: "Rolling around half naked on the floor of a mirrored room; performing unnatural acts in unspeakable positions; committing indecent exposure under glaring lights, not to mention the bold stares of hot-eyed strangers." Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour? No. Ms. Gould at a health club...
That last characteristic will be shortlived. Ms. magazine has begun featuring a Bretécher cartoon each month on its back page, and others have been popping up in such disparate places as Esquire and Viva. A book-length collection of her work, National Lampoon Presents Claire Bretécher ($5.95), was published in the U.S. last month by 21st Century Communications. Ten volumes of her work have appeared in France, and recent ones have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur...
...editors (April 20) in which she states that "Harvard must place the academic goals of the University above all other considerations"' on the grounds that "partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science and esthetics." Furthermore Ms. Esser writes that "by teaching students how such goals [morality, truth and beauty] are more more important that profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa...
...Ms. Esser has failed to see the connection between the University's actions and its ability and moral right to teach its students the values of morality and truth. Is it not hypocritical for Harvard to teach us such values while at the same time it violates them by their involvement in South Africa? How can an immoral institution teach morality? How can it teach the value of truth...