Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accumulating most of the accolades of late. Nevertheless, I am quite willing to go out on a limb--an unpopular one at this point--and predict that Bloom is likely to far outshine Levine when the benefit of further retrospect makes itself available, and for several reasons. In this particular exhibit, however, the scales are unevenly tipped. Levine appears at his absolute best as virtuoso and as spokesmen of the art; Bloom, on the other hand, doesn't have his maximum say. In both cases this is due to selection, which has put together a far from inclusive group...
Harvard's particular provincialism, then, lies not so much in the constraint of its limits as in its inability to see these limits. That Harvard is bounded is as unthinkable as the same statement applied to the universe; or, if one grants that it might be true, the analagous reaction comes forth: What is there outside? Harvard students have very little awareness of the just discrepancy between Harvard as they see it, and as it appears to others...
...your article on the telephone, you mention "more than 600 patent lawsuits" in which Bell was involved before his patents expired. May I call to your attention one particular lawsuit, that of Antonio Meucci, 1808-1889, a native of Florence, Italy, who claimed the invention of the telephone...
...title is reserved at Harvard for a small group of distinguished scholars who work "on the frontiers of knowledge" without being limit ed to any particular school or department...
...field which includes Lehigh's defending champion, Dick Santoro, while King Holmes, at 157, faces--among other tough men--Bill Macaleer of Princeton, who pinned him in a dual meet. Rick Sullivan, at 167, and heavyweight Ted Robbins or Bob Wynne face similarly tough jobs, although Robbins in particular has been impressive during the season...