Writer

Seth M. Kupferberg

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An Academic in the War

Edward F. Chamberlain, superintendent of Kirkland House, tells a story about a Kirkland celebration that took place some years back,


Introduction: Remembering Vietnam

The Vietnam War meant different things to the different people whose lives it affected. For the peasants of Vietnam, who


Ersatz Bertrand Russell

T HE PRAISE WITH WHICH some critics have greeted Celebration probably has more to do with their respect for its


The Going of the Americans

I N ONE OF KAFKA's short stories, an explorer arrives in a small, poor, and remote country, garrisoned by soldiers


The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz

The reading period quiz is a little premature this term, but so was Joyce Maynard's autobiography. She's off in the


The Last War Dispatches

Suddenly the war in Vietnam was a big story again. --Time, March 31 A MERICAN NEWSPAPER accounts of the Saigon


The Men Behind the Guinness Book

*Cleverest Grandfather Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the


Choosing A Heavyweight

T HE NICEST thing about Class Day is that it only comes once a year. Its high point is supposed


Third Force Comes to Boston

N GO CONG DUC speaks English haltingly, and he sometimes verges on seeming embarrassed at taking up his listeners' time--as