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This is the terse and unsatisfactory description you find when you look up Harvard in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, fourteenth edition. Ask a middle western business man about Harvard, and he will tell you that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald...
...naming the new Defense Commissar, Dictator Stalin also let it be known for the first time who brought to its victorious conclusion the Finnish campaign. Both were the same man, Marshal Semion Timoshenko. The Marshal is a Bolshevik so comparatively obscure that the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia gives him not a line...
...Encyclopedia of World History" is intended primarily as a reference book, and is divided into fifteen sections, each dealing with a particular historical period...
Among those assisting Professor Langer in the writing of the encyclopedia are Lauriston Ward, lecturer on anthropology; Robert O. Schlaiffer, instructor in history; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin and of history, in the field of ancient history...
Most of these facts might be got more handily (and possibly more accurately) from an encyclopedia, but Harsanyi's 572-page novel provides for leisured readers a better-than-hack picture of Italy's late Renaissance cities, courts and manners. As a novelist Harsanyi has at least one artistic moment that Flaubert would have appreciated: As Galileo kisses the yellow hand of his mistress's dead father he can only think how like it is to hers...