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...that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from a Jewish transport car to Poland: "We've stopped at Auschwitz, we have to get out. It's a big factory town with lots of smokestacks everywhere...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will continue to grow, and appointments in science and engineering will fuel the bulk of that growth over the next few years, outgoing Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote in a letter to professors yesterday...
...letter, Knowles did not say specifically how many professors should be added in the coming year, and a spokesman said Knowles was unavailable for comment yesterday afternoon. But his letter emphasized faculty hiring that he said will keep FAS “of the first rank” in cutting-edge fields such as genomics and nanotechnology...
...number of faculty members with ladder positions has grown from 615 to 723 over the last decade—a larger increase than the last four decades combined, according to Knowles’s letter...
...number of professors, scientists and non-scientists alike, said yesterday they hadn’t yet read Knowles’s letter. But one who had, former Germanic Department Chair Judith L. Ryan, said she was surprised to learn that humanities departments at Harvard had been growing...