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...Miss Ward's hands, the dubious tool of Freudian literary analysis becomes simply gossip. "Just as he lost his fatrer," she writes, "at the age when he needed him most keenly, he found and then lost his mother again at the time of his sexual reawakening." (Keats was fifteen then: sexual reawakening?) Distasteful as that sort of thing is when it concerns Keats's personal life, it recovers at least to the level of patent silliness where literature is involved. "Though 'Calidore' (one of Keats's earliest poems) is a fantasy of rebirth, of emergence into a masculine world...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: Keats the Poet | 9/25/1963 | See Source »

Although the Boston project excited some controversy, most of the two-day debate on the space authorization bill was taken up by a wrangle over communications satellite research. Fifteen liberal Democratic Senators, led by the late Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, sponsored a resolution to require the privately-owned Communications Satellite Corporation to reimburse the government for any "advice or information" provided to the corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Approves Space Budget, Assigns Research Center to Hub | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

...audience and grinned at the testimony of Ware and his Negro companions. Since the word of one or even three Negroes can hardly outweigh the word of a white man, a verdict convicting Charlie Ware of public drunkenness was returned after the jury deliberated for but fifteen minutes. The first day was over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report From Albany, Ga. | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, will be among fifteen Boston delegates to an NAACP lobbying conference in Washington this week. The delegation leaves from Logan Airport this morning for a three-day stay in the capital...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Howe Among 15 Mass. Delegates To Talks On Washington March | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

This is the triangle-on-a-desert-island situation favored by magazine cartoonists. Levin's contribution, the absence of water, adds to the situation's comic possibilities. And except for the final fifteen or so minutes of the play, these possibilities are fairly well explored...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 'By The Sea' at the Ex | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

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