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...most importantly, we generally support the progressive views that tend to lie in the overlap of many of HSF’s member groups, and we strongly support HSF’s mission to provide a framework for organizations that advance these goals. Ultimately, it is the choice of the College Democrats to decide whether to quit the HSF, and they should not be subject to outside pressure. But regardless of the Dems’ decision, we wish to see the HSF continue to provide the sturdy base necessary for progressive politics to flourish on Harvard’s campus...
...dubious advice for a writer. From James Joyce to Tennessee Williams, from Virginia Woolf to Mary Gordon, modern literature has thrived on an undercurrent of patricide and matricide. Monstrous parents, it seems, are what gifted children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics, Transatlantic Blues), has managed to compose a mellow family chronicle that turns literary...
...conventional social-science literature on the subject ties jealousy to low self-esteem: men and women who feel they fail to measure up will tend to exaggerate the danger of losing a special friendship or romantic attachment. A survey reported in the September issue of Psychology Today found that jealousy is apt to occur in the area of a subject's interests or aspirations. Someone who desperately wants to be rich will be jealous of rich people, just as those who envy creative people may fear that their mates will run off with novelists and painters. Another truism: jealousy tends...
Views of jealousy tend to follow changing attitudes in the popular culture. In the 1950s jealousy was widely viewed as a healthy expression of determined love and in the 1960s, as a pathological obstacle to sexual freedom and self-love. Nowadays the emotion comes in three basic versions...
...Anna Murdoch's first novel, which bears the dedication "For K.R.M.," was helped into print by the name hiding behind those initials. The fledgling author's husband happens to be Keith Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born press baron whose empire now includes a movie studio and may soon ex tend to a string of independent TV stations in the U.S. But the cynics in this case will be wrong. In Her Own Image would have found a willing publisher if it had been written by someone without an influential spouse to her name. It has most of what blockbusters require...