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Vladimir Nabakov, like Joseph Conrad, is a foreigner who has become one of the most important stylists in English; but, unlike Barth, he deals with human beings, not metaphysics. The charm, for instance, of the novel Pnin (included in its entirety in Nabokov's Congeires) comes not so much from the telling of the story as from the character of Pnin, a hapless professor of Russian in a small American college. There may be no real separation between style and content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight...
Boston Latin will battle Boston English in their traditional Thanksgiving Day game at Soldiers Field this year, but Harvard is once again taking special precautions to prevent a recurrence of the post-game rioting in the Square two years...
Cambridge City Manager James L. Sullivan said that the City would schedule its traditional Thanksgiving Game--Cambridge High and Latin against Rindge Tech on Russell Field--to end at a different time from the Boston Latin-Boston English game. "The problem would be that you don't want two big crowds meeting in Harvard Square," Sullivan said...
...Bach Society Orchestra's programming of two of the Opus 6 concerto grossi was a welcome step into the edifice of Handel's creations. The set of twelve concertos comprise the finest English instrumental music written until this century. There can be no doubt that Handel, although born in Saxony and raised on Italian opera, is a thoroughly English composer. He arrived in London during the interregnum left by the death of Purcell in 1695 and the first works of Thomas Arne twenty years later. By 1710 Handel had subsumed into his Italianate idiom the brilliant scoring, deep love...
...fact is that legislation and English prose are two different things," Wilcox said last week, and to avoid a repetition of the Doty Report confusion, he tried to break down the 48 recommendations into items for legislation. Dunlop was cool to the idea of an item by item discussion from the first, and Wilcox concedes now that the attempt to translate recommendations into questions for debate and a vote was not a success. "Many of these things are linked, and you can't destroy the damned coherence of the prose...