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Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...
...Harvard University Press recently awarded its Faculty prize to Herschel C. Baker, professor of English, for his biography William Hazlitt...
...prize, which includes an award of $2,000 to the winner, has been given since 1956 for the most distinguished contribution to scholarship by a Faculty member whose work was published by the Press. Baker's book correlates historical, biographical, and critical analysis of the English essayist Hazlitt. Calling it "large, spacious, and scholarly," the New York Times described the biography as "a great journey where the bypaths are as inviting as the main highway...
...least everyone at all important in the play) is free to fleet carelessly in the golden world of Arden. Nor do the fleeting characters present much of a problem: Shakespeare has delineated their roles with a screne certainly. Rosalind, so "full of voluble, laughing grace" (the phrase is Hazlitt's), dominates the forest, and her own investigation of the pastoral tradition is accompanied by the parallel but ultimately limited investigations of the comedy's two commentators, the material fool, Touchstone, and the melancholic traveler, Jaques...
...into the course, except in derogatory terms. In Samuelson's "Economics," basic reading for Ec 1, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek are relegated to two brief footnotes each (Yes indeed, who are they?). Wilhelm Roepke isn't even mentioned. In one of the sections, Henry Hazlitt was denounced as representative of the most "reactionary" economic views today, fortunately limited only to a "fringe" group. There is practically no analysis this year of Adam Smith, Spencer, Alfred Marshall, W.G. Sumner or Bastiat. This situation is deplorable as the course is recommended to non-Economics concentrators and is required...