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...Harvard process is very, very slow," says Leo Damrosch, chair of the English and American Literature and Language department. "The upshot...is it takes close to two years to get an offer made. All of the humanities are frustrated by that...
LOVE: Greta Garbo's 1935 turn as Anna Karenina was faithful to Leo Tolstoy: Anna indeed ends her life under the wheels of a passing passenger train. But in 1927 she appeared in a silent-movie adaptation, which, in one version, concluded with Anna reunited with her lover Vronsky after the convenient death of her husband...
Zorack used the words of Leo Tolstoy to help convey the intricacies of the American system to his Russian students...
Posthumous popularity, however, can lead to conflicts, both financial and artistic. Hendrix's father Al is suing Jim's former lawyer, Leo Branton Jr., and Hendrix acquaintance Alan Douglas, claiming he was duped into selling them the rights to his son's music and image. Douglas, who has produced many of Hendrix's posthumously released records, contends it was his business sense and creative choices that made the Hendrix legacy so profitable in the first place. "It's been a long, difficult trip to revive Hendrix," he says. "But I'd say we have in fact rescued...
This man, Leo Strauss, spoke at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he gave a speech entitled "Between Athens and Jerusalem." His speech addressed the tension between navigating the course of one's life either by the lodestar of Jerusalem or the lodestar of Athens. Like the earlier giants on whose shoulders he stood, Strauss searched for the answer to whether one should live one's life by the dictates of faith or the demands of human reason. He unceasingly examined all the efforts on narrowing the gulf between God and Mind, seeing if he could better articulate and possibly...