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This University's opportunity arose when D. Marcus Singer was similarly indicted for contempt. But, rather than break new ground in the realm of academic freedom, the University followed a pattern set in all but the extremely narrow-minded universities of the nation and relieved Dr. Singer of his teaching duties...
...like a little boy standing on a corner and saying 'Nyaah,'" said Councilman Marcus Morton. "All Red spies should be banned from Cambridge and everywhere else...
HADRIAN'S MEMOIRS, by Marguerite Yourcenar, was a cool, cleanly written novel in the form of a letter from Roman Emperor Hadrian to his adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. It made most of the year's best-selling historicals seem like blowsy farces...
...French Author Yourcenar shuns sex and sadism, keeps the defenseless slave maidens in the background and the Saturnalia under control. She allows the sick and aging Emperor Hadrian, ruler of the Western world, to tell his own story in a letter to his 17-year-old adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian enjoys a good orgy from time to time as much as the next Roman, and he practices the empire's fashionable perversions. But he is far more deeply interested in the uses of power and the nature of the soul...
Cornell University has relieved zoology tutor Marcus Singer, former Harvard instructor, of his teaching duties awaiting final disposition of his indictment on a charge of contempt of Congress. He will continue to receive his salary...