Word: oscars
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...Adventure of the Empty House), is given Nietzsche's physical characteristics (a high forehead, "the brow of a philosopher," and a huge grizzled mustache. With the vitality of a dog grinding a juicy bone, Rosenberg goes on to extract from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories strong influences from Oscar Wilde, Catullus, Robert Browning, Racine, Poe, Mary Shelley, George Sand and even Jesus Christ...
...Beginning Was the End (Praeger; $7.95), the enthusiasm of Author Oscar Kiss Maerth spills over in red ink. The book, subtitled Man came into being through cannibalism-intelligence can be eaten, bears all the markings of pristine eccentricity: a big theme, a closed system of self-perpetuating logic, a disdain for accepted thought, no specific scientific references, no index and no bibliography. Kiss Maerth, who is described as a man born in Yugoslavia who spent many years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko...
...these suspicions, the new black middle class seems less obsessed with whites than the old bourgeoisie used to be. Says Oscar Weaver Jr., a supermarket owner in Liberty, Fla.: "The black middle class does not regard the white as an enemy but rather as a challenge." In general, blacks can take whites or leave them, and often at quitting time at 5 o'clock, they choose to leave them. As a black personnel recruiter in New York City says, "The only thing that keeps my head intact is the chance to get with other people now and then...
...better year for Harvard filmmakers. Frank Mouris '74, a former VES lecturer, won the Oscar for best animated short subject with his autobiographical "Frank Film," made at Carpenter Center. W. Donald Brown '74 showed his full-length "Counterpoint" to packed houses at the Science Center in March, and brought out "Robin Hood" in May. Brown's promotion and financing methods suggested an entrepreneurial skill rather rare among Harvard filmmakers--most of whom content themselves with making short films which few people see--but his movies didn't live up to the expectations he aroused...
Finally--not exactly a wrench in the works but certainly a red herring--The New York Times reported in late March that Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and chairman of the Faculty library committee, was being considered for appointment as the Librarian of Congress...