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Pictures from an institution.(art history and criticism)(Column)
[T]he absurdities of Benton were so absurd, and I myself was so thoroughly used to them, that they had come to seem to me, almost, the ordinary absurdities of existence. Like Gertrude, I cherished my grievances against God, but to some of them I had become very accustomed....
Sex, greed, envy, power, money: Gertrude knew that these were working away at Benton ... exactly as they work away everywhere else.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution
As far as I know, the great novel of graduate-student life has yet to be written. As for the life of the graduate student of art history, a subgenre of subgenres, one finds virgin literary terrain. Kingsley ...
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