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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Banish Kapitalizm. Solzhenitsyn is a rare master of the Russian language ?not the debased, impenetrably formula-ridden Russian produced by two decades of Stalinist newspapers, schoolbooks and speeches, but the rich mother Russian that calls on all the ancient, all the regional, and all the poetic

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE WRITER AS RUSSIA'S CONSCIENCE | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

Memorial services for the late Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, who died Sept. 7, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Fri. in Memorial Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton Services | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

...again, getting for its Commencement speaker (always one of the honorary degree winners) His Imperial Majesty, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahanshah of Iran. President Pusey cited the Shah as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Honorary Degrees | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

...explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion is the Near East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...father killed himself. He was obsessed by the "spoliation of nature"-human and mineral-in the once aristocratic Philadelphia suburb where the family lives. Charley, idle and lonely, powerfully infected by his father's preoccupation with decay, conceives a death wish of his own. A neighbor woman, an ancient relic of the town's past, wages a moral and psychological battle to exorcize it, finally succeeds by dying herself. But Charley lives on, haunted by the fear that he had really meant to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheed's Specters of the Past | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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