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Humanities 2 students are reminded that the Clancy Brothers will sing songs of war in the Homeric tradition at 10 a.m. today in the Alumnae Room of Longfellow Hall in the Radcliffe Yard...
...matters cultural, Nikita Khrushchev is simply not with it; modern art gives him indigestion, and he regards jazz as so much noise. Last week the Kremlin's Red Square reached all the way back to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow trying to convert The Song of Hiawatha into a Communist ballad for disarmament without inspection or controls...
Addressing 2,000 delegates from 100 countries who assembled in the tepee-Moscow's Palace of Congresses-for a Red-sponsored peace conference. Khrushchev recalled that Longfellow summoned "the tribes of men" with the plea: Bury your war-clubs and your weapons . . . Smoke the calumet together. "I do not smoke," added Big Chief Nikita, "but really, I would be happy to light the calumet together with the leaders of all powers...
...Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then: Ended were his wild adventures, Ended were his tricks and gambols, Ended all his craft and cunning, Ended all his mischiefmaking...
...Unitarians were Congregationalist and Episcopalian rebels; they rejected the divinity of Christ because the Trinity seemed incompatible with the idea of one God. In the 19th century, Unitarianism nurtured the flowering of New England. The Harvard Divinity School was virtually a seminary for the church until 1870. Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau and Hawthorne called themselves Unitarians. Since about 1930, Unitarianism has tended to divide into two uneasily yoked branches: one seeks to preserve the church's past links with Protestantism, and asserts the fatherhood of God, the leadership of Jesus, and the hopeful march of mankind toward salvation; the other...