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FOGG. James Mollaart, Inst. of Archaeology, U. of London, "Catel Huyuk, A Neolithic City in Anatolia," Norton Lecture Hall, March...
...chilly, though many admire his geometry. Fuller's poetry, the hyperventilated phrasing of his ideas in a form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess Bucky, Hugh Kenner, a literary man who has written books on Joyce, Beckett and Pound, solves the Fuller packaging problem brilliantly. Instead of boxes, he spins a sort of geodesic Glad Bag in which Fuller...
Harvard, like an understanding professor giving a student a paper deadline extension, has arranged for Leonard Bernstein '39, Norton Professor of Poetry, to deliver his lecture series six months late...
Under normal circumstances, the extension of Bernstein's residence period into the next academic year would overlap with his successor's tenure. But the Committee on the Charles E. Norton Professor of Poetry was not planning to appoint anyone to the chair next year anyway for financial reasons, according to Harry Levin '33, chairman of the Committee...
Normally, the Norton lecturer is required to be in residence for the academic year. When Harvard offered to reduce the term of residence to 12 weeks each term, Bernstein said he could not accept because of his professional committments. "But when they made it six weeks, I couldn't refuse," he said...