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...Government Department announced last week that neither the substance nor the soul of presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50, will continue to inhabit Harvard formally...
Schwarz-Bart begins his dramatic moral fable in a timeless, tribal Africa, where spirits inhabit the trees, tom-toms breathe lightly under agile fingers and the dead are buried in the fields so they can blow life into the roots of the crops. Ancestors who tire of the underground may slip into a passing pregnant woman and be reborn...
...years now. It involves the destruction of Hunt Hall (at the north end of the Yard) and the creation of a new freshmen dormitory capable of housing approximately 200 people. Under plan 2, all freshmen, both male and female, would live in either the Yard or Claverly--none would inhabit the Radcliffe Houses...
...writer is not some reactionary fogy whose predictions have finally come true, the way a stopped clock is right twice a day. She is a leading modernist critic, Barbara Rose, and her strictures would not have been made in the '60s, when American art seemed to inhabit an endless summer. Then New York believed in its manifest destiny; it had become the new Paris, or even Imperial Rome. The "mainstream" ran through New York. And it seemed by mid-decade that virtually everyone with something to invest was blundering about in its turbid flood like a shark, snapping...
...turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which, like the reader's bookshelves, belong to some taxonomic order...