Word: highet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POETS IN A LANDSCAPE (267 pp.)-Gilbert Highet-Knopf...
...N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ "must be dated...
Robert Pearlman, Long Beach, Mathematics; Michael Maccoby, Mount Vernon, Social Relations; Fred J. Levy, New Rochelle, History; Ralph Blum, II, New York City, History and Literature; David P. Chandler, New York City, English; George B. Driesen, New York city, History; Gilbert K. Highet, New York City, English; Robert H. Mundheim, New York City, History; David L. Shapiro, New York City, Government; Stephen A. Weiner, New York City, Economics; Milan C. Kerno, Jamaica, Government; James D. Finkelstein, Rockville Center, Chemistry...
...middle ground Derry Griscom's "Two Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...
...Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...