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...rereading Coriolanus, Anthony Powell, Stendhal, Hart Crane and T. S. Eliot. His schedule is modest compared with the ten-foot shelf that French Critic Claude Roy claims to have taken on his vacation: all of Henry James, Proust, Chekhov and Henri Michaux; three volumes of Sartre's Situations; Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky, in three volumes; four F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and two by Hemingway; six art books; Nan Hoa Tchen King by Tchouang Tzeu; Leopardi's Zibaldone; and Alice in Wonderland...
...enjoyment of your Mariner cover story [July 23] was somewhat curtailed by the implication that "science fictioneers" are not authors of serious literary works. Men like A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Isaac Asimov are respected as writers of fact as well as fiction. The thought that these men picture life on Mars as "little green men with floppy antennae sprouting out of little green heads" is at once ridiculous and laughable...
SCHUBERT TRIO NO. 1 IN B FLAT (Columbia). Never have violin, piano and cello sounded more radiant than when played by the illustrious trio of otherwise solo virtuosos Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin and Leonard Rose. Schubert's music kindles this continuous glow, for it is filled with sunlight, in contrast to the black Winter Journey of the same period, shortly before the composer's death...
...Isaac Kramnick '59, who will be head tutor in Government next year, said that the basic reason for the projected change in the grading of senior tutorial is that the grade in Gov 99 is usually super-flous. "The grade has stood all these years because the official description of the course has been the thesis and material in the field. This has been a euphemism for many years for the thesis and a certain amount of cramming for general examinations," Kramnick added. He noted that tutors "either send in an A-" or try to predict the thesis grade...
...morning portion at Washington, hur Schlesinger Jr. former professor History, will present the background the Vietnam situation from the administration's point of view. Hans of the University of Chicago, Isaac Deutzcher, a British authority Russian History, will criticize the , position in Vietnam and the Cold...