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...give their course a boost, Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich and Senior Lecturer David W. Latham hired a plane yesterday to tow a banner over Harvard that shouted, "A-17 NOON MWF SCIENCE CENTER HALLD...
...falling leaves, rumors fly that either Norman Mailer or W.H. Auden has won the Nobel Prize. It is hard to know why. The old gentlemen of Stockholm who award the prize have a way of bypassing big and/or distinguished names in favor of astounding alternatives. But not since Icelander Halldór Laxness was plucked from above the tree line in 1955 has there been such total befuddlement as greeted the 1968 award to Novelist Yasunari Kawabata...
...Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People...
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