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Recent coverage of Camille Paglia's provocatively titled presentation "What's Wrong With Harvard?" (March 20, 1992) did give the reader some idea why Paglia was invited to campus, when in mentioned Professor Harvey C. Mansfield's flattering introductors remarks. Howerver, the reporter highlighted Paglia's personal attacks upon members of the Harvard faculty, especially members of the Women's Studies Committee and the program chair...
This may have been the sum total of Paglia's message, but if diatribe replaces dialogue and character assassination substitutes for content, I expect your reporter to provide some kind of context for the reader...
...reputation as a mesmerizing and innovative storyteller. In the haunted world that she conjures, dead relatives command greater attention than the living. It is a measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes, who, like flowers that bloom in urban...
Luckily, the Harvard Negotiation Project has good questions to ask and helpful, prescriptive advice for even the randiest reader. Why? Two words: We care...
...Hermann von Trott "became steward to a Hessian prince in 1253") may add something to our understanding of Trott's view of himself as a German, MacDonogh has trouble relating them to Trott's place in history. And if they add no compelling understanding of Trott, why provide the reader with such details...