Word: levins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates for the committee are: William H. Aaron, George S. Abrams, Carmel J. Cohen, Howard L. Kastel, Martin K. King, Joshua M. Levin, Harold S. Levy, H. Lester Medlinsky, Reid B. Morrison, Albert E. Neisser, Bruce D. Phillips, Dirk H. Post, Robert L. Shapiro, Thomas W. Tavenner, and Leonard B. Weingarten...
While MacLeish discounted the greater impersonality of present-day warfare as a reason for the demise of the great war novel, Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English, cited it as contributing to the lack of heroes in modern literature...
Modern technology has undermined heroism, Levin maintained. With the conscription of large-scale armies and the development of the airplane and the bomb, the individual has come to count less and less. Defending Norman Mailer's book, "The Naked and the Dead," which in no sense justified war, Levin asserted that the only real relationship between war and literature has been and should continue to be the truth...
John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and Master of Eliot House, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Harry Levin '33, professor of English will participate in the symposium...
Virtue's Reward. In Van Nuys, Calif., Irving Levin returned from the police station, where he had gone to turn in $90 somebody lost, found his car ticketed for illegal parking...