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...Shakespeare well knew, the sun's heat bred serpents and other monsters out of the mud of the Nile. With The Blue Nile, this ancient river of mystery has now been made the object of two studies that employ all the modern arts of research to dispel myths and muddy misconceptions. Alan Moorehead, an extraordinary journalist-turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: River of History | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...anti-jockism at Harvard bad as anti-intellectualism; type of personality under exists per se at Harvard, and no reason why a varsity dispel the erroneous triad types by joining a final club A's. To those who ask " hell are you doing down at muddy field with a bunch animals when you could be your knowledge by reading ?" the athlete can reply " a college experience" much validity and pride as a of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Council, or any group...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Myth of the 'Jock' | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

Even if it could not present a unified policy recommendation, the Faculty Committee on the size of the College did dispel "all uneasy feeling" that an important issue was slipping by without being noticed. Robert G. McCloskey professor of Government and chairman of the committee, said yesterday...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Chairman Defends Report Of Expansion Committee | 5/17/1962 | See Source »

...obsessed by mutually contradictory impulses, and his mordant humor is best expressed by standing acceptable ideas on their heads. When one character painstakingly discovers irrefutable evidence that there is a God, he is persuaded to destroy it on being reminded that, for believers, "an absolute, demonstrated certainty tends to dispel faith and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.) expressed hope that the HYRC visit would dispel the "impression that a donkey is the Harvard mascot." Salton-stall will host a luncheon tomorrow in honor of the Club members in the New Senate Conference Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Members Visit Washington; Saltonstall, Keating Will Host Group | 4/11/1962 | See Source »

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