Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quotations from The Lichtenberg Reader, Lichtenberg was a master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained...
...didn't say yes loud enough...." This is a tremendously funny play. But the humor is warm, so close to life that it could not possibly be transmitted without the people. The humor exists in the tangled logic of the Jews' existence at this time of history, in late nineteenth century Russia. The existence itself had to be rationalized and joked about, and what we laugh at are people laughing at themselves. Acting out this world in English, then, is perhaps the only substitute for reading Sholom Aleichem in Yiddish, and it is improbable that anyone could put across...
Both of Harvard's art museums are presenting handsome, well-organized showings of modern graphics. At the Busch Reisinger, a chronological survey of German graphic work from the late nineteenth century to about 1930, has been collated from those pictures that the late Louis Black '26 donated to the Museum...
...Professor MacLeish's third lecture on poetry that saved him. Like the Renaissance discovering the Greeks, like Goethe discovering Shakespeare, like the nineteenth century discovering nature, Harrison discovered Oriental poetry. He had run across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta...
...voluntary, as will the winter session. During one of the two half-terms, the student is required to do field work. The college will give courses, often doing experimental work in the brief term. This winter, for example, there will be one course given: "The Breakdown of the Nineteenth Century World View...