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...Nobody is happy about closing the libraries," Harry Levin, Babbit professor of Comparative Literature, said yesterday about the decision. "If I had my way the library would be open day and night for the whole year...
...Washington, with Kissinger acting as their go-between. Negotiations over Golan, however, promise to be considerably tougher than those over Sinai. At least initially, Jerusalem is expected to resist anything more than minor adjustments. From Israel's viewpoint, as a high-level Jerusalem official told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin with extraordinary candor, deliberate delay is especially advantageous...
Says Harry Levin, professor of comparative literature at Harvard: "Language changes. The more it is used, the more it is abused. English was a very permissive language to begin with. Shakespeare, for example, had the advantage of writing when there were no grammars." Some believe that the current outrage over abused English reflects snobberies of class and power. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "Language is a power tool. I'm not sure if it isn't just the elite who have had power who are worrying over the loss of influence...
With that revision of a famous dictum, London Times Pundit Bernard Levin summed up the mood of Britain last week.* On the Monday morning after the Common Market referendum, when the edge was off the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as well, Britons were reawakened to the fact that all of their old problems were still with them. Indeed, some had got worse...
...Levin was parodying the often incompletely quoted observation of the 2nd century physician Galen: Triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque (Every animal is sad after intercourse, except the human female and the rooster...