October 15, 1999

Autumn's Clean Slate

To the Editor:

I am certain I was not alone in connecting Jay Parini's feelings about the beginning of the academic year with the season of Jewish high holy days with which it coincides ("Every September, a Clean Slate and Fresh Chalk," Point of View, September 10). Parini touches on all of the themes of the period: an introspective review of the past year, a determination to improve the shortfalls, and a clean slate to actually try -- even as the natural

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