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...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations spans some 5,000 years, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 3500 B.C.) to the verse of Andrei Voznesensky (born 1933). The book ends are astonishingly apposite. The King Tut exhibition demonstrates that ancient art has modern resonance. Nostalgia for the Present proves that Russia's contemporary poet tells ageless parables...
...Yale Daily News reports that Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti agreed to trade the Yale Repertory Company to Harvard for Government Professor Samuel P. Huntington, $250,000 in cash, and the Morton Prince House, currently on casters. "Harvard wanted a first-rate drama school, and we were strapped for cash. Huntington was a last-minute throw-in," Giamatti explains...
...give the Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
Brustein will leave Yale next year, because Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti, in a controversial decision last year, did not renew Brustein's contract...
...AFTER ABOUT 50 pages, LeBoutillier forgets about Harvard, and the book's title--a misnomer to start with--drops from sight. What we get instead, is John LeBoutillier's philosophy on government, as derived from Bartlett's Book of Quotations, Harvard history courses at their most simplistic level, and his senior thesis--which had something to do with the origins of the Republican Party...