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Much has happened to England since Gibbon wrote, and to Robert Graves the fall of Rome seems a much more complex matter than it did to Gibbon. Nor does he write of it with the majestic smugness that has made Gibbon an unsurpassed soporific for 150 years. The barbarians were really pretty tough. The emperors whom Gibbon dismissed as weaklings were really doing their best; the barbarian generals were smart men-besides, Rome was a hard city to defend. So in Robert Graves's books Rome falls with a sigh rather than with the sonorous crash that Gibbon heard...
Latest Graves novel of Rome's slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...
...dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture will be Walter N. McCornack of Cleveland, nationally-known architect and housing authority, who replaces Dean William Emerson next fall...
...Fellows, who came here last fall under the sponsorship of the $1,000,000 Nieman Fund, will participate in the various House activities, attending dinners and meetings, assisting in the American History extra-curricular plan, making themselves as accessible as possible. Already they have helped instructors in classes and in tutorial conferences...
Though three thousand miles separates us from Europe's sore spots, in contrast with England's one hundred miles, our milder degree of unpreparedness nevertheless warrants close attention. First, during the Fall, the various maneuvers of the Army revealed a scarcity of anti-aircraft equipment, of different types of mobile guns, as well as insufficient guns to protect the coast. The production, or at least distribution of new rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack...