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...culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that way-there is no reason to believe that the hoi polloi in 5th century B.C. Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about T. S. Eliot. In this, as in other matters, Author Fitch is rather too much the glib child of his times. In the '20s Author Fitch was a student expatriate in Paris and an atheist...
Unknown Theodore. Professor Smith had been browsing through the libraries of the 5th century monastery of Mar Saba in the wilderness a dozen miles southeast of Jerusalem when he came upon a 2½-page text written into the back of a book published in 1646. It was not uncommon, in times when paper was scarce, for monks to copy into contemporary volumes items of interest they might find in the odd pages of ancient, disintegrated books that floated around the library before being thrown out or used as bindings. Smith checked the handwriting with nine of the world...
...your story about the opinion of some faculty members on the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Cubs (CRIMSON, Jan. 5th) you reported me as being a member of the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." This is not true. I am not and have not been a member of that organization. Your reporter probably confused the "Fair Play Committee" with the "Committee on Cubs of the Harvard and Radcliffe Liberal Union" with which I was connected untill recently. I would appreciate it if you set the record right...
...dominant theme of the exhibit is Buddha, for the art of Thailand grew out of a yearning for new ways to worship him. After Buddha died in the 5th century B.C., his bodily relics were divided and divided again, but there were never enough to supply all the stupas (Buddhist shrines) in the land. As a result, the faithful constructed a hierarchy of lesser deities (Bodhisattvas) to worship, as well as an elaborate system of "reminders" of the sage himself. A reminder could be a stupa that possessed no relics but was a replica of one that did. There were...
...heavy cloudburst, which later forced postponement of the last 18. At the 15th, as he was addressing the ball, a train puffed and tooted past; on the 16th fairway, Palmer was attacked by an angry bee. Despite the distractions, Palmer played almost flawless golf. He birdied the 2nd, 5th, 13th and 14th, and ran up an unbroken string of 16 threes and fours. Then came the Road Hole. A booming drive left Palmer with an easy iron approach to the pin. Turning to his caddy, Palmer asked: "What should I use now?" The caddy suggested a five iron. The shot...