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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAIAS, by Eça de Queiroz. The greatness of Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) has been almost completely concealed from the English-reading world by the mere fact that he wrote in Portuguese. Happily, his stature is at last glimpsed in this handsome translation of a massive satire that anatomized Portugal's pathetic aristocracy and stands today, against any standards, as a major 19th century novel...
NUMBAH ONE (from pidgin English) means the best. NUMBAH TEN, until recently, meant the absolute worst. As the war has grown more arduous, NUMBAH TEN THOU' has come to describe a man or a circumstance 1,000 times worse than numbah ten, if possible-and far worse than MICKEY MOUSE, a versatile expression that labels an activity superfluous, unheroic, fouled up, or all three...
...theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland; his reputation-plus a $45,000-a-year salary-recently lured Nobel Physicist C. N. Yang to Stony Brook to head an Institute of Theoretical Physics that will have a $2,700,000 nuclear lab. Toll, who has also captured English Scholars Alfred Kazin and Peter Alexander, expects all his big-name professors to teach undergrads and all his researchers to apply their research to their teaching. He is applying Pentagon-style systems analysis to his educational goals, is trying programmed teaching by computer in basic physics and German. He accents interdisciplinary studies...
...school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain-crippling phenylketonuria (PKU) in infants. Foundation grants have allowed Buffalo to snare Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby and Physicist Edward Teller as visiting professors. Critic Leslie Fiedler teaches in the English department. S.U.N.Y.'s only law school is at Buffalo...
Sheep Eyes. At the height of her modeling career, she met Movie Producer Charles Feldman (A Streetcar Named Desire, Seven Year Itch), who offered to give her a screen test. "They were paying expenses, and I was curious to see Hollywood," she says. "I memorized a few lines of English, hardly understanding a word I was saying. Somehow, I passed...