Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservative basis..." Eliot makes an interesting remark in his 1964 preface to the published lectures. Of his earlier essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," continually applauded and sometimes used as propaganda by conservative English departments trying to dictate classical educations, he says it was "perhaps the most juvenile." Harry Levi '33, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, saw Eliot speak when Levin was an undergraduate, and he's seen many of the Norton lectures since then. When asked which lecture meant the most to him, he said that Edwin Panovsky's presentation. "Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character," given...
...fixed through the rock with heavy bolts. The engineering, he frankly admits, is "just eyeball stuff" but, though it is crude (probably, if anything, too strong for its tonnage), it works visually. Sometimes the connectors are too busy, with all those nuts and bolts. But in works like Levi, 1975, the jacket of forged and cold-beaten metal encloses its granite haunch with an astonishing delicacy. Because they are structures and would wreak havoc if they slipped, one becomes aware of their properties as substance: the weight and crushing resistance of stone as against its brittleness in tension; the malleability...
...Heroine Levi...
...injustice to Kochava Levi, heroine of the Savoy Hotel attack, by reporting that she "slipped free herself when she was allowed to accompany one of the wounded from the hotel" [March 17]. She saved the life of the wounded man by dragging him out of the hotel, but then she went back to stay with the other hostages until the end. She said later that she could not save only herself when others were still in danger...
...Hyde, and Todd Lundy. These four should comprise the Crimson's top four racquetmen, and while the final positions are not yet set, as, in Barnaby's words. "the players are beating each other back and forth in playoffs," it is likely that Chip Baird, John Horne, and Jim Levi will round out the varsity squad, Out of this seven, six will be chosen to play singles in regular competition...