Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream of consciousness device is made much use of; the piece concerns two characters working out their artistic and creative problems in the Fogg Art Museum. "Young Man" is undoubtedly the most interesting and mature work in the magazine, but with only this capsule guide, the reader will have to decide for himself...
Geologists, who sometimes attack their work from strange angles, have now been climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...Seapower in the Pacific," a movie, will be shown at 2 and 3 o'clock in the Semitic Museum lecture hall...
...Fogg Art Museum at 8' clock Professor Levin, Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, will start the ball rolling in the Modern Language Center's celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cervantes. Speaking on "Cervantes and Melville," Levin will present the first on a list of some eleven lectures by a group of noted scholars...
...alert reporter, however, discovered that in Australia the snoek is called barra-couta. He raced to a natural history museum. Ah, yes, said a learned authority there, the South African snoek (not to be confused with the basslike Gulf of Mexico snook or robalo) is indeed a barra-couta, a cousin of the mild-mannered mackerel and no relation to the barbarous barracuda...