A Bog(us)ey Report

Once again Time Magazine tells the nation this week what life is really like at Harvard. In case you were too busy studying last week to notice, "Humphrey Bogart's side-o-mouth repartee has become the canon vernacular of Harvard Yard," according to Time, "and anyone who doesn't dig it is digging his social grave."

Time, in its puerile eagerness to portray the Harvard undergraduate as giddy and faddish, has stumbled blindly past the deepest source of Bogart's popularity. Ah, Time, beneath that rugged grain lie vast wellsprings of tender vulnerability. Behind the carpe diem don't-give-a-damn throb the profundities of ultimate concern. To Time, Bogey, in sex as in all, is hard-boiled egoistic opportunist. We know what he is really after. A little bare Thou.