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Just west of Littauer, off to the side of what is perhaps the most grossly disfigured parcel of Harvard's real estate, stands a gravestone with obscure and uninformative markings. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but, as it was, all he got around to was a written gabfest at his breakfast table...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Holmes House | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

...little breezes, O streams, O mountains, O lakes . . .")-The gods with their king-sized personalities and jester-sized consciences dominate the Metamorphoses. Ovid accepted the Greek notion that the gods were created in man's image: lusting, brawling, conniving, cruel, with offhand streaks of decency -a prize parcel of divine delinquents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Myths Made New | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Inheritance is part and parcel of a larger problem of exploitation, and we shall use this debate as a discussion of property relationships," George J. Gloss said last night on behalf of the Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Socialist Party Challenges Debaters To Argue Inheritance | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Republican Leader Knowland struck another note that would impress many readers of the Yalta papers. Said he: "If the disclosures dis courage two or three nations from thinking they can sit down behind closed doors -with no responsibility to their elected representatives and to the people-and proceed to parcel out nations and people without their consent, they will have served their purpose. Whether it be at Yalta. Potsdam or Geneva, a useful purpose will be served if every official who participates in negotiations realizes that he has an ultimate accounting to the people and that his decisions will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Light of History | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

With Stassen's personal future temporarily tended to, the Administration is expected to parcel out FOA's economic functions to the State Department, its military functions to the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: A Slot for Harold | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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