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Despite such simplistic assumptions, Jane Jacobs succeeds as usual. Shining through every page of her book is a boundless and infectious conviction that the city is the best and noblest product of man. In one remarkable chapter she even goes so far as to reverse the traditional assumption that the first cities grew out of agricultural communities. Not at all. Citing archaeological evidence, Jane Jacobs argues that the first cities were founded on trade and actually helped create organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas...
...need for originality is much prized by Cortazar. He once cast Theseus as a dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...
...Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe elected the following 19 girls yesterday: Joan C. Biella, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Leslie M. Crane, History; Lucy A. Bergson, English; Ruth Wells Chapman, History and Literature; Susan Trafton Edmunds, Classics; Frances Toby Shachat, Biology; Deborah Fiedler, History and Literature; Ruth A. Ryan, Chemistry; Brenda Sue Baker, Applied Mathematics; Patricia E. Moyer, Chemistry; Kathleen A. Birk, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Joanna F. Seltzer, Social Studies; Marie I. Montamat, History; Dale Rosen, Social Studies; Ronnie E. Feuerstein, Government; Arden Aibel, Social Relations; Elizabeth S. Gimbel, English; Karen Johnson Train, English; Sarah Campbell...
...obvious, finally, that any study of the Harvard crisis can be no more than a short chapter in the sprawling study of the crisis of modern youth and modern academia. It is almost impossible to separate what is true for Harvard alone and what is valid more universally. A complete description of the crisis would try, more rigorously, to focus on the unique features of this community. A summary report on causes can hope to do little more than show how Harvard's concrete case illustrates general propositions, or rather how its peculiar ordeal revealed a general plight...
...Colosseum." In fact, he devotes a total of only 56 lines to the scenic attractions of Rome, v. 68 to those of Sardinia, and the introduction to his chapter on Italy reads: "In Spain the traveler finds a bullfight, in Denmark he stuffs himself in Tivoli Gardens, in Switzerland he buys a watch, and in Italy he goes to the opera. Allowing for seasonal factors, it's as simple as that." His wide-eyed, hoked-up style and notions about what tourists want to do with their time abroad would probably make Baedeker turn over in his catacomb...