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...insurgents' assault intensified dramatically in January with a media one-two punch. First came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...
...I.R.D.'s success is a classic of neoconservative activism: adroitly gathering synergistic boosts from like-minded groups and individuals, the institute has prepared a number of hard-hitting research reports. Rather than submitting them to obscure academic journals, it has sought the interest of media outlets like Reader's Digest and CBS's 60 Minutes to give its conclusions mass exposure...
...onset of independent thinking. Good teachers yearn to be obliterated. Good teachers of literature have little choice in the matter. The Hamlet they pry open for the 19-year-old will not be the Hamlet that student reads at age 50. The play will have changed because the reader's experience will have recast it-the noble, tormented boy of one's youth reappearing in middle age as something of a drip...
...reader can well imagine Levine deriving her literary equation for Splendor and Misery in much the same fashion and, in the end, her prescription bears a likeness to Segal's. In fact, her book resembles that other Harvard novel on another, more basic, level Love Story is not a good book either...
...again and again, even in the most peripheral descriptions of Cambridge weather or shops. Eager to recreate faithfully each joyous image of Harvard life, Levine crowds her sentences with painstaking and pained observations noting each character's clothing or the color of trays in the dining room. Thus the reader learns that Sarah and her boyfriend first make love "in Cambridge, in Mather Hall (sic), in the bottom bunk of a double-decker, his tie on the doorknob to warn away roommates..." And not don't even close to the end of the sentence...