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Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing...
Harvard and Yale defeated Oxford and Cambridge, 21-13, to win the Naughton Cup track meet at New Haven, Conn., Saturday...
This eye-popping blurb -- about a dictionary, no less -- may seem a bit of a stretcher. But the Oxford English Dictionary is not just another reference book, an arcane preserve of scholars and authors, like Burgess, who use language to make their livings. Since its completion in 1928, exactly 71 years after it was proposed at a meeting of the Philological Society in London, the OED has stood as the ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English...
...hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed to the efficient cooperation among firms in Britain, Canada...
...Amherst College graduate, Banta was studying international relations on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford when he began working for TIME in 1979 as a stringer. After postings in Chicago as a correspondent and in New York City as a writer, he took a leave of absence in 1984 to work as issues adviser for Gary Hart's first unsuccessful presidential campaign. When he rejoined TIME a year later, Banta headed for Vienna, which is home base for his five-day-a- week forays into Eastern Europe...