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...grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and possibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then, there are probably...
...with his mother and could no more than any other mortal "make the gods do more than the gods will." Through TV, perhaps millions were able for the first time to see and hear the people of Thebes bid farewell to their fallen, blinded king with Sophocles' final lament...
Fitzgerald writes of loneliness and puzzled men, of the ancients crying on their gods and moderns trembling in the night, of war and love and the waiting grave. He tries his hand (not too happily) at a new translation of Catullus' famed lament for his dead brother, and does better with one of the Roman poet's many farewells to his tartish Lesbia. The final poem of the book, History, combines his sense of the past with the immediacy of the present, his feeling for place with his reverence for God. And the concluding lines, though aimed...
...that Egypt's brash hero-for-hire has unshrewdly mortgaged the Arab world's future to the Russians, perhaps the most concise epilogue to the fateful transaction is A. E. Housman's lament on the demise of another imperceptive youth...
Married. Charles Lament (Charley) Jenkins, 22, Villanova University senior and 1956 Olympic 400-meter track champion, who holds the world's 500-yd. indoor record (56.4 sec.); and Phyllis Randolph, 20, clerk at the Boston Army Base; in Boston...