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...Bartlett's adds Dylan and shrinks Shakespeare...
This was John Bartlett, the mild and scholarly proprietor of the University Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., who was asked so often about the origin of some quotation or other that he decided in 1855 to print a small (295 pages) collection that he entitled Familiar Quotations. Out this month from Little, Brown, in which Bartlett eventually became a senior partner, is the 15th edition of his little collection, the first updating in ? twelve years. Now 1,540 pages, with 22,500 quotations, it is a sockdolager, Nearly 3,000 of the quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from...
Kemeny is the second Ivy League president in six months to call for reduced emphasis on athletics. Last April Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti criticized the stress placed on sports among Ivy schools and called for guidelines on recruitment of athletes...
...players supporting Richard vary widely in quality. The Lady Anne of Denise Bessette is strident and amateurish. Georgine Hall's Duchess of York is only adequate, but Robin Bartlett's Queen Elizabeth is clear and convincing work...
...Court Bartlett '30 says that she was one of the lucky ones," able to find a satisfying job that fell within the realm "of acceptable professions." After continuing her education at the New York School of Social Work and the Smith College School of Social Work, Bartlett, the first woman ever to attend Radcliffe from Nashville, Tenn., held jobs in different social work agencies around the country. It wasn't until later in her career, when she began to approach many of the issues and assume many of the same responsibilities of her male colleagues, that Bartlett began to sense...