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THERE are people who have seen Halley's Comet more often than they have seen a play in the Eliot House dining hall. The mere fact that someone has cared enough to mount a show in such unfamiliar surroundings automatically exempts the production from easy sneers about the House's...
Professors should indeed profess with a passion, and scholarship should not remain aloof from social ends. But in their obsession with the failure of scholars to change the Government's Viet Nam policies, the dissenters run the danger of creating a restrictive dogma of their own. When the radicals...
The antiwar sentiment has become something of a national obsession. An anti-U.S. Swedish Committee on Viet Nam, headed by Economist Gunnar Myrdal (TIME, March 15), claims a membership of 600,000 Swedes, nearly one-tenth of the population. Last month Myrdal's group staged a torchlight parade...
The long trail to this assertion began unwinding in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), in which Fied ler argued that the peculiar kink in American literature was an obsession with death; and that, in turn, inhibited a mature approach to heterosexual themes. As a result, literature fastened...
The greatest frustration was the nagging uncertainty about when they would leave. "It would be even more anxiety-inducing for the doctors to tell you when you were expected to leave," one student said, "since that would become an obsession, but the fact that they left it hanging in the...