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...class of 1958’s Latin salutatorian and class poet, Segal remained at Harvard to earn both a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He later taught classics at several other Ivy League institutions, and, after teaching classics at Yale from the 1960s through the 1980s, became an honorary fellow at Oxford University’s Wolfson College...
Written while Segal was on leave from Yale in the late 1960s, the story follows the budding relationship between preppy Harvard student Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jennifer Cavilleri, who dies not long after their marriage...
...outing the shameful continued segregation of schools as the most underreported story of 2009. As a retired schoolteacher in South Carolina, I have witnessed firsthand how lack of resources and funding can lead to this type of segregation. Although we have certainly come a long way since the 1960s, it is critical that we remember we still have a long path ahead...
Like his paintings, his caricatures owed much to a 19th century aesthetic. The link between the crosshatching technique of the French cartoonist André Gill and the methods of the Brooklyn-born Levine is unmistakable, but to readers of Esquire in the early 1960s, Levine's style seemed refreshingly different. Soon the painter who regarded caricature as just a sideline also found himself illustrating for New York magazine and Harper's, drawing covers for TIME and appearing regularly in a new publication, the New York Review of Books...
...Basu leaves behind is a party in decline, unable to stand up for the increasingly urgent needs of India's poor. Basu's home state of West Bengal is one of two in India (the other is Kerala) where communists have been a major electoral force since the late 1960s. But while the left in Kerala has been in and out of office, Basu's Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been an unquestioned force in West Bengal for decades. Early in his political career, Basu harnessed the threat of massive strikes to take power - and keep...