Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English. Previous U.S. editions were either abridged or sold by subscription; the present edition, the first in decades, seems to be the most nearly complete yet available. On the whole, it makes rewarding reading. There is no getting away from the fact that Memoirs is chiefly a record of night errantry, of seductions conducted on a scale that will amaze today's grey-flannel philanderer. But the language is witty and infinitely less crude than that of almost any contemporary bestseller. And Casanova's powers of observation make his autobiography read like a fascinating picaresque novel. As Critic...
...Night filled the bedrooms. The racing thoughts...
...Night faded with the ebbing of the tide...
...creative act itself, including Pasternak's writing of his poem. This corresponds to his belief that "the world's best creations describe their own birth.'' The birth of the poem, Pasternak seems to be saying, is like the birth of a world, day emerging from night. The poet encompasses the world and suffers to express it ("Blood froze in the huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet-the possibilities of symbolic interpretation are almost limitless, without ever...
Perhaps the unprecedented character of the Loeb Drama Center will itself create obstacles in fulfilling the theatre's original purpose, Joel F. Henning '61, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, speculated during an informal club discussion of the Center last night...