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WASHINGTON

THE BRIGHTEST YOUNG LITERARY TALENT in America today skipped into our nation's capital in May to deliver the National Endowment for the Humanities' 35th annual Jefferson Lecture. 11 is name is Tom Wolfe. And though he is young he has already written several very good hooks, most recently the best-seller, I Am Charlotte Simmons. It chronicles the revelries of campus life as witnessed by Wolfe, and it reads as though he spent a great deal of his research time at Duke University, observing the high-spirited Duke lacrosse team whose members have mired themselves in such controversy owing to their interest in modern dance.

Wolfe lectures with the vigor of youth, …