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...even real ones, provided they can be kept at a respectable distance and performed with a touch of class. After all, murder can be the most romantic, if temporary, solution to a problem, which is why the Romantics could not get enough of it. Thomas De Quincey, the Romantic essayist, went so far as to propose "Murder as One of the Fine Arts." Historian Franklin Ford observed, in a brilliant article in Harvard magazine (February 1976), that throughout most of the 18th century there were no important political murders in Europe or America (until the final decade, when...
...Snow: 1905-1980 "I'm a fairly clever chap and can put my hand to things," C.P. Snow liked to say. The self-appraisal was a classic of good British understatement. Snow put his hand to a stunning variety of things. He was a novelist, essayist, biographer, physicist, playwright, civil servant, company director, government official. Member of Parliament, teacher and public lecturer. His death last week at age 74 brought to an end not one life but many...
Environmentalists view the world's wilderness areas as sacrosanct places that must be left untouched. Their concern strikes Essayist and Microbiologist Rene Dubos as ironic. Dubos, who is perhaps known best for his work in using microbes to produce disease-fighting drugs, points out that many of the areas weekend backpackers and others consider so beautiful resulted from degradation of the environment. The sere hills of Greece were produced by deforestation and erosion; the Downs of England owe their lushness to the introduction of sheep grazing; the orchards and fields of New England are the creation of civilization. "Humanized...
Octavio Paz, poet, essayist--Doctor of Letters...
...Slavic Languages and Literatures Department not only invited, but listed in the course catalogue as an associate professor Stanislaw Baranczak, a 33-year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan, Poland. Baranczak was to begin a three-year term here July 1, 1978, but the Polish government has steadfastly refused to let him go, despite continued protests by Harvard officials--including several letters to Polish authorities from President Bok--and the State Department...