Word: barbarians
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...demonstrators' demands, began to complain about their disruptive tactics. Outside Low Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
Died. Yvor Winters, 67, poet, critic and longtime (1937-66) Stanford literature professor; of cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...
...Cambridge University, had a piece of criticism published in F. R. Leavis' formidable literary organ, Scrutiny, and was immediately initiated into a privileged class. Although he knew by then that he would never be a poet, he was flattered to be "magically transformed overnight from a Brooklyn 'barbarian' into 'one of the young gentlemen from America...
...overwhelmed the rational world of the Apostles and Bloomsbury. "Catholics, Communists, Rosicrucians and Adventists"-Woolf herds all passionate believers into one nasty pen. He never seems to have asked himself whether it is rational to expect men to behave rationally. Must it be true that a believer is a barbarian? Surely the question is not the act of belief, but what is believed...
...from flotsam, the 2,500-year-old artifact from the once-barbarian state of Ch'u in China's Middle Yangtze region promises to provide a key for deciphering archaic Chinese. It may shed light on links between early China and civilizations of the Pacific and South America. And it should surely yield an understanding of early Chinese legends, calendars, religion, society and astrological beliefs...