Seth M. Kupferberg
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The Oh, Mama, Can this Really Be the End? Quiz
Another quiz? Well, why not? We've come a long way since the "Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz," and if we couldn't stop the
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