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...frequently the poems reveal a translator who has succumbed to the haste which is so inviting when one is dealing with the Greek lyrics. Their compactness and delicate balance--particularly the epigrams--are deceptive and lead the over-anxious into insipid work. Too few of these selections attain the strength of the few which are excellent...
...years; Great-Grandfather Daniel Coleman held 105 taxable slaves, worked 1,725 acres. Introduced to courthouse politics at ten by his grandfather, J.P. was taught at 15 to read the Congressional Record every day. At 17 he enrolled in the University of Mississippi, the first Coleman to attain college since pre-Civil War days. At 17 he was also on the hustings rounding up audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court...
Last summer Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin became the first woman in the history of the University to attain the rank of full professor through regular faculty promotion. In September she assumed the duties of chairman of the Department of Astronomy...
...Associated Press service would like a comment on some dispatch from London." Hugh Gaitskell disappeared momentarily, but soon returned to end the conversation easily and with-out strain. Then, beaming, he mounted the stairs again, three at a time with momentary secret that the don-turned-politician could soon attain yet another personal triumph...
...neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed, which Adler ignored, and at which Jung only broadly hinted-achieved outstanding importance for Rank. It became something that each individual had to attain for him self on the plane of "spiritual realities." To Rank, man's core was the "will to immortality," that is, "man's inherent need to live in the light of eternity...