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Participants, who will give lectures on Jackobson work include MIT President Paul E. Gray. Calvert Walkins, Harvard Professor of Linguistics and the Classics international poet. Octavio Paz; and Sir Edmund Leach an anthropological from Cambridge University in England...
Maine's race pits incumbent Democrat George Mitchell, who was chosen by Gov. Joseph E. Brennan to replace newly appointed Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie in 1980, against challenger David Emery, a Republican congressman from the first district in eastern Maine. Emery, a young outspoken conservative, "makes no bones about his support for Reagan," says campaign spokesman Bob Tyrer...
...Before Edmund Halley (pronounced Hal-ee) identified them in 1705 as periodic visitors to the inner solar system, comets were widely viewed as omens of disaster. Astronomers now look upon them as primordial chunks of matter that offer clues to the solar system's formation. The budget-conscious U.S. has bowed out of the race to intercept Halley's comet with a robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called...
...Edmund R Donoghue, deputy assistant medical examiner of Cook County, said two brothers in Arlington Heights and a 12-year-old girl in neighboring Flk Grove Village died within 11 hours of each other Wednesday form cardio-pulmonary collapse after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules. He said an investigation "definitely confirmed the presence of cyanide" in the over the counter pain reliever...
Thus when Edmund Wilson declared in 1959 that the novel would "come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history," scarcely anybody seemed to believe him. Since then it has been principally Russian exiles and specialists who have persisted in treating Doctor Zhivago as a masterwork of 20th century fiction. For all the attention the book has received from American critics, Doctor Zhivago might be a novelization of the movie of the same name...