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Symposium on Ancient Medicine--Therapeia: Doctor and Patient in Ancient Medicine. Sponsored by Greek and Latin. Lecture by Ruth Padel, Lecturer in classics, Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "A Doctor in the Nous: Greek Perceptions of Human Beings which create the Doctor's Way," 10:15-12 a.m., Room 264, Science Center...
...Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois can be maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house...
...delights in Freudian analysis of typographical slips of the finger, and points out tiresome puns at every opportunity. He even plays word golf, like Nabokov's Kinbote, only not as well: Golf, gold, good, gods, nods, nous, gnus, anus, Amos. "Eight strokes with some cheating and a one putt." It is as if Updike has been suppressing all this game-playing for years as self-indulgent and inappropriate, and now he has discovered the perfect way out--he can pin it on Marshfield in the name of character development...
Battista's apres-nous-le-deluge decade-long gangbang of imperialism provides the backdrop to the one point in his career where Michael seems on the verge of respectability. In partnership with Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), he is about to transfer a large part of his wealth into more-or-less legitimate Cuban hotels and casinos. Along with executives of companies like United Fruit and "U.T.T." he goes to Havana to be honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird...
...automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that he is the law, because we are the law.' L 'état, c 'est nous...