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DIED. Ivor Armstrong Richards, 86, British scholar, language reformer and immensely influential literary critic; in Cambridge, England. "The guru of Cambridge" in the 1920s laid down the principles of what became known as the New Criticism, an attempt to apply scientific method to analysis of literary values. Teaching briefly in China and, from 1939, for more than two decades at Harvard, he turned his attention to primary education and became the world's leading proselyte of Basic English, a boiled-down, 850-word version of the language that he considered easily learnable by foreigners...
...started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug ("So it goes") have probably found the guru they deserve. At the same time, Vonnegut is one of the few truly original and distinctive stylists to emerge in the past 20 years. The clarity and apparent simplicity of his prose are sure signs of the craft that went into making...
...camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Christopher Isherwood wrote the lines 40 years ago in his novel Goodbye to Berlin. The author is about to celebrate his 75th birthday, and he is still clicking away. His latest book, titled My Guru and His Disciple, depicts his relationship with Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk Isherwood first befriended in 1939. To be published early next year, the memoir takes care of what Isherwood calls his "sacred side." He is now working on a book about his "profane side"-his years as a Hollywood scriptwriter. Obviously this cameraman...
...though, is the most interesting part of Cambridge, for it has the oldest and most sharply-defined neighborhoods. Follow Cambridge Street, for example. From the back of Harvard Yard, Cambridge St. snakes past Hospital Row and comes into Inman Square, a miniature and somewhat rundown Harvard Square featuring the Guru Meher Baba Information Center and the In Square Men's Baba Information Center and the In Square Men's Bar (to which women are also welcome), Legal Seafood and the 1369 Jazz Club. Outside of Inman Square, Cambridge St. bolts straight into East Cambridge, the Portuguese/Italian working class section...
DIED. Herbert Marcuse, 81, Marxist philosopher and guru of '60s youth; of a stroke; while visiting in Starnberg, West Germany (see NATION...