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Variations on Broken Eggs

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By Christopher Benfey
| Soundings from The New York Review
In April 1951 Randall Jarrell sent a short poem titled “A War” to his friend Robert Lowell: There set out, slowly, for a Different World, At four, on winter mornings, different legs… You can’t break eggs without making an omelette —That’s what they tell the eggs. The poem is unnervingly odd, with its disjointed second line that evokes, for me, Bruegel’s ominous Hunters in the Snow, who bring no good tidings to the village they’re approaching.
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A Clearing of the Ground

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By Christopher Benfey
| Soundings from The New York Review
Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The casualties are staggering, with an estimated eighty-nine colleges closing or merging since 2020 alone and forecasts that a quarter of the nation’s private colleges and universities are at risk in the coming decade.
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Road Trippers | Christopher Benfey

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By Christopher Benfey
| Soundings from The New York Review
As though aware that their images might one day adorn our monuments and our money, the principal Founders assiduously cultivated their personal appearances. Intent on conferring awe on the new office of the presidency, George Washington rode in a cream-colored coach drawn by pairs of white horses.
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