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March 1997
Volume 60, Number 5

Feature story:

The Yale of My Day
Every generation of Yale graduates seems to have a special vision of what the College meant to them. To plumb the similarities and differences among those visions over the years, YAM turned to 14 alumni—professional writers all—spanning nearly six decades for personal reflections on the Yale of their day.

Young Lords and Lower Classes
by Oliver Jensen ’36

Distant Thunder
by Roger Starr ’39

New Haven On Stage
by Max Wilk ’41

From White Shoe to Combat Boot
by John Finney ’45W

Defying Dink
by Lewis Lapham ’56

Harold Bloom and the “Orc Cycles”
by C. D. B. Bryan ’58

Vietnam On Our Mind
by Jacques Leslie ’68

Of Reading, and a Wink
by Stuart Kellogg ’70

A Confusion of Lures
by Steven Brill ’72

Chronicling a Cauldron
by David W. Dunlap ’75

Surviving “Grim Professionalism”
by Melinda Beck ’77

Diary Daze
by Hugh Kennedy ’87

A Not Unwelcome Senselessness
by Jane Mendelsohn ’87

When the World Barged In
by Peter Beinart ’93

Letters

Calendar

Faces

From the Archives

Light & Verity
+  women swimmers make waves
+  restoring Manuscripts & Archives
+  the bulldogiana market
+  bashing the balanced-budget amendments
+  $15 mission in research grants from Bristol-Meyers Squibb and the National Institutes of Health
+  early decision attracting more applicants, but the pool is shrinking

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