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...high price to pay for an artistic effect, but Mishima's death did at least serve to endow his last works, now being published in English translation, with an eerie sense of death anticipating art. This is especially true of Runaway Horses, the second volume of the tetralogy; for its subject is right-wing rebellion and, presented in weirdly loving detail, the beauties of seppuku (ritual suicide). Camus said that "suicide is something planned in the silence of the heart, like a work of art." In Mishima, for all of the peculiar sensationalism of his death, there...
Even his flamboyant suicide may not be enough to endow his works with the human blood they lack...
Harvard will accept almost any donation, unless the donor requires that the University forbid certain activities as a condition of the gift or unless the donor tries to impose restrictions on the use of the money that would constrain the freedom of ideas. A recent offer to endow a series of lectures against careers for women was refused on these grounds, as was a gift to the Med School for "the application of music to medical cases as a treatment...
...Irving M. London, director of the program, said yesterday that the gift from Becton Dickinson and Company will be used to endow two term professorships--one at Harvard...
Japan has never had a tradition of private or corporate philanthropy. Nevertheless, last week the huge Mitsubishi group of industries gave $1,000,000 to endow a professorship in Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School. The occasion was the 54th anniversary of a similar gift by U.S. Banker A. Barton Hepburn for a chair in American studies at Tokyo University Law School. For Mitsubishi, Harvard was a logical choice: it has both great prestige and some of America's foremost Asian specialists, including Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan...