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...another new, upper-level Hum course, Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, will give Hum 135, The Age of Enlightenment, in the spring of next year...
...music in his spare time, and found that "just about everything that interested me stuck." Without really trying, he says, he can rattle off the names and dates of any ruler in any major country through history, give the dates, forces employed and strategy of 500 historic battles, or hum entire symphonies. Thanks to his rare gift, Nadler currently may add as much as $192,000 to winnings that have already provided a $15,000 house for his wife and three sons. Beyond that, he can take his pick of offers that will lift him out of his clerk...
...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
Chunks in the Casserole. The fact was that there has been a hum of gossip in Britain for years about the Duke's high jinks, particularly at parties given by his bohemian cronies of the Thursday Club, which included Parker. U.S. tabloid correspondents dug up "palace sources" who said that the royal household was disturbed about rip-roaring stag parties at the club, and had dropped Mike Parker so he would not be around to encourage the Duke to go Thursdaying. Other correspondents, however, found sources who said that the real trouble involved parties that were not always stag...
...full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey...