Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ITALIAN JOURNEY (508 pp.)-J. W. Goe-fhe, translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer-Pantheon...
...longtime Goethe fan, Poet W. H. Auden is neither awed nor incapable. In attempts to make the formidable German more accessible, Auden and his collaborator, Elizabeth Mayer, have bypassed the nacreous brilliance of Goethe's complex imagery and the Gluhwein dark of such things as Faust, Part II. Instead they settled on Goethe's prose journal of his 20-month trip to Italy in 1786. Ostensibly, the book is a readable travelogue in the "dawn found us at the Apennines" tradition. But it is also an account of the most decisive period of Goethe's life, when...
...attend unofficial briefings staged by Father Ralph Wiltgen, director of a news service for the Divine Word, a Catholic missionary order. Father Wiltgen distributes his own informative handouts, holds press conferences at which the speaker is usually a council delegate. Last week Father Wiltgen produced Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer of Campos, Brazil. "I just want the world to learn what's happening," says...
...general assumption that racial segregation in housing is steadily diminishing north of the Mason-Dixon line is stringently challenged in a report by Albert J. Mayer and Thomas F. Holt, sociologists at Detroit's Wayne State University. In general, they say, most major Northern cities are actually more segregated than they were 30 years ago. Some comparisons for Detroit...
Detroit is not alone. Says Sociologist Mayer: "The same polarization of the races has taken place in every major Northern industrial city except New York, where the anti-discrimination laws are rigidly enforced, and where most people live in rented apartments and don't mind if the building is integrated because they have no economic investment at stake...