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...doctrine of "publish or perish" in regard to appointment of professor is not so strict as many suspect it to be, President Pusey said yesterday, discussing undergraduate criticisms of Harvard's educational programs...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French...
...another great war, Sorokin urges, a new form of Western culture, built on a stronger and more durable foundation, will emerge phoenix-like from the ashes left by the he notes, self-interest and altruism dictate the same current conflagration. For the first time in history, policy. Love or perish--the choices for Western man are limited...
...what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the King James version translates as "Thy Money perish with thee" (Acts 8:20). See RELIGION, Colloquial Scripture...
...down in a pool of blood. After steel-helmeted cops arrived to break up the melee, sergeants-at-arms bore Mr. Speaker off to a hospital on a stretcher. He died two days later, the first presiding officer of any parliament in the history of the British Commonwealth to perish of injuries received while occupying the chair...