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Your April 8 review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of The Art of Love was also a description of the translator. The modern Mr. Humphries, my Latin teacher at Woodmere Academy until his departure, used to explain Caesar's military escapades in terms of machine guns, mortars and armored tanks. It was no surprise that Ovid's women be dressed by Dior...
Considering the first topic, Oppenheimer pointed out that Newtonian mechanics had been enormously successful in application to the effects of gravitational forces, but they were unable to explain the constant shape and, in general, size of the electon orbits...
...starting point, Wagner fixes upon Lewis' deepseated loathing for the romantic tradition and all that it implied in art, philosophy and sociology. With remarkable impartiality for one who has obviously devoted much time to his subject, Wagner trys to explain Lewis' various stands in terms of this fundamental position. The result does more to cast a little side-lighting on the literary movements and issues of the early decades of this century than it does to explain the mind of Wyndham Lewis. (The book makes no attempt to deal with Lewis' contributions as a painter...
...last week Washington was strewn with the wreckage of the demolition job that U.S. Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey began last Jan. 15. On that day Humphrey held a press conference to explain the latest Eisenhower budget. His prepared statement, written with White House assistance and approved word for word by Dwight Eisenhower, left an eminently proper impression of a Treasury Secretary defending his boss's budget. Then came a question-and-answer period-and George Humphrey struck out on his own. If long-range expenditures are not reduced, Humphrey predicted, the nation will see "a depression that will...
...Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after all, only...