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Bloom does not really expect his Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers...
Only about a third of the 80 members of the Harvard Club of Quincy--which also includes the Milton, Weymouth, and Braintree areas--is under 40, according to President Barryl. Ambroseno...
Carnesale has replaced former Provost Jerry R. Green's print of Old Harvard Yard with a vivid oil painting by Milton Avery. Fresh green plants hang in the windows of his Massachusetts Hall enclave, and three pine boxes bearing the words "In," "Out" and "Too Hard," sit awaiting the white-haired administrator's papers...
Similar feelings of disgust with the media are common not only among students but also with the local public Victoria Russell '66, a physician from Milton who returned to the U.S. Saturday after spending six weeks in France, says she appreciated her distance from the events...
Gone from its prominent spot over the fireplace is the traditional waterprint of old Harvard Yard. In its place is a vivid oil abstract by Milton Avery...