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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This view ties in beautifully with the great majority of the odes. It explains the love poems, which so often comment on lovers ill-suited by age; it enriches our understanding of the tensions of the fourth book, written when Horace had lived past the age of decorous love (by his earlier standard) but still had the same desires; furthermore, it reveals that the recurrent seasonal metaphors are cyclic reminders of the need to conform decorously to life's changing demands. Hence, carpe diem is not a simple invitation to license, but a complex call for infinite attention to each...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Odes of Horace | 5/14/1962 | See Source »

JUSTIN MCCARTHY JR. Park Ridge, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

MORTON GOLDSHOLL Morton Goldsholl Design Associates Northfield, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

UNTIL lately, the favorite complaint of U.S. colleges was that high schools sent them immature and unscholarly freshmen. Now the tables are about to be turned. Ill-prepared for doubled enrollment in the 1960s, colleges also face a sharp rise in ability-the nation's better high schools are improving so fast that their top graduates are too good for ordinary colleges, and too numerous for the best ones to handle. The favored campuses in particular are hotly debating everything from admissions to curriculum, and a new shape for colleges seems to be in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: NEXT YEAR'S BRIGHT FRESHMEN | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...sharp contrast to the many colleges that still keep students "in a state of perpetual puerility," says President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, are such citadels of learning as New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill. There, he points out, students "may study four years of the Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: NEXT YEAR'S BRIGHT FRESHMEN | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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