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...translation for Zhivago, for Pasternak coined his hero's name from the Russian word for "alive." Love of life is at the heart of Pasternak's devastating indictment of the Communist regime. He believes that history is a shadow cast by man, not a bloodstained leash to drag him to future "social betterment." 'Says Doctor Zhivago: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life . . . Life is never a material, a substance to be molded . . . it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about...
...fashion, the Lancet reports: "Adolescent girls smitten by the equine folly wear their hair in 'pony tails,' which tends to drag out the hair at the temples. This form of baldness is endemic in Greenland . . . Loss of hair is seen in American Negro women who paradoxically want to make their hair straight...
James Hanley is the kind of Irishman who gives the impression that his life has been a knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
Certainly a department should defend its autonomy when endangered by administrative officiousness, and it should protect both its teachers and students from abusive restrictions from the outside. But in this case the abuses of graduate study come from within the departments themselves. It is the men who drag on as long as fifteen years in vague pursuit of a Ph.D., stalling, cluttering the files with never-consummated thesis topics, who abuse the admirable leniency of the present system. Yet not everyone can or should manage a thesis in three years and a degree in four. Factors such as the depth...
...Misfire. In Euclid, Ohio, when police flagged down two cars for drag racing and asked Louis Dommer if he knew the driver of the other car, Louis said: "Yes, sir, it's my wife...