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...constructed the House System. In the Lowell years, in turn. The Crimson seemed to reflect the nature of the complex man who was President of Harvard. Starting in the 1920's our records of The Crimson become more and more complete. The modern comment book, the auditor's notebook in which editors share messages and inspirations, dates from 1924, and from the comments which editors have written over the past half century, we get a much more intimate view of life at Harvard, and the nature of The Crimson, than we have from the bare bones records of the first...
...TEMPTATION OF JACK ORKNEY AND OTHER STORIES by Doris Lessing. The author of The Golden Notebook moves with keen intelligence over some of the major issues of our time...
...reader, reputed to have a speculative, even impractical mind, and notorious as a bad scientist, seizes on such sentences and enters them in a notebook crammed with similar apercus. In this act, and in its cause (here, Eddington's observation), the reader's temperament is revealed, a temperament at once impatient and imbued with languor, undiscipfiined and ordered. It conspires to receive all ideas as echoes of other ideas, on a diachronic level. In other words, whenever the reader happens to notice an idea which resonates through time, associations clamor like heirs to be recognized, and a number of them...
...Alban Berg, and forgotten masterpieces like Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique are elevated to the level on indispensable texts; like letters discovered several decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader to reevaluate his library and his notebook, those two vessels of humane learning. In time, he realizes that what he has collected represents no more than a mere portion of what there is, and resolves to devote his labors to the subjective, to whatever mirrors and enhances his own suspicions about the nature of existence...
...play Shenandoah, the prose poems and sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions and out-of-print books have passed through the hands of less than two thousand readers...