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...panel of which President Conant was a member examined and commented on 412 educational broadcasts produced by the Lowell Council during the past year. The broadcasts had included Basic English selections from the Iliad rendered by I. A. Richards, University Professor, and a series of talks on social relations by Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology...
...they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe, The Gold Bug and The Three Musketeers...
Next day the Government organ, The Irish Press, learnedly explained: "The Greek words used by Mr. de Valera were poluphloisboio thalasses. They mean 'of the loud, resounding sea,' and are from Homer's Iliad, Book One, line...
...translation of the Iliad by Rieu is also coming; so are Sophocles, Xenophon, Theocritus and Tacitus. Penguin has entrusted mystery writer Dorothy Sayers with The Divine Comedy. Turgenev, Gorki and Ibsen will also get badly needed fresh coats of English...
...roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once his Gov 1 section man in the basement of New Lecture Hall, was talking about western thought institutions in Social Sciences 2a. They never had added up before, those lectures...