Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...
...would build up a big force of intercontinental missiles (ICBMs) capable of striking the U.S. The Russians concentrated instead on IRBMs, and today the Soviet Union has many more missiles aimed at Western Europe than the U.S. has missiles aimed at Russia. That point was underlined last week by Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, in a rebuke to the British intellectuals who keep equating Russian bases in Cuba and U.S. missile bases abroad. Said he: "We sit in Europe covered by every kind of missile directed at us from Russian soil. If you bargain between one base...
...Stepping up to the honorary presidency of his huge Rank Organisation Ltd., Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55. Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment. Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new electronics division...
...Eliot: "The attitude of an age toward its Lord Byron-in this case a sort of combination of Lord Byron and Dr. Johnson-is always . . . different from the attitude of the future. Won't the future say to us ... did you actually believe that all those things about objective correlatives, classicism applied to his poetry? Surely you must have seen he was one of the most subjective and demonic poets who ever lived? Take The Waste Land, which Eliot would have written about the Garden of Eden but which your age thought its own realistic photograph. After the first...
...productive years. He died almost is the year Frege and Boole began the systematic restructuring of mathematical foundations, but his work on the specific foundations of all the known geometries represents some of the most acute thinking in mathematics with regard to the relation between geometry and physics. Lord Russell has recalled that his own early work was done in ignorance of Clifford's, but ventured that Clifford in the 1870's was thinking ahead of the best minds of his day. In Einstein's time the geometry of the real world lost its reliability as a frame of reference...