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...Antony is a tragic figure, but not in this play. For all his dashing around, his is a virtually static character. We see only the results of tragedy, not the tragedy itself. The very opening lines of the play, delivered by Philo, tell us Antony has already hit bottom--and that's where he stays. He is no longer a great man: he is vicious and sadistic; he shows signs of incipient alcoholism; his military judgement (not even Shakespeare makes credible his decision for a sea battle) and prowess (he even bungies his suicide) are quite gone. Once...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Antony and Cleopatra | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

...James Gordon Bennet Prize went to Lee B. McTurnan '59 for his thesis "The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association: A Study in Group Politics;" the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize to Guido G. Goldwin '59 for "Zionism under Soviet Rule;" and the Eric Firth Prize to Isaac Kramnick '59 for "William Godwin: The Enlightenment and Political Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Gives Prizes to Theses, Dissertations; Fulbrights Granted | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oberlin's 125th | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...James Gordon Bennett Prize was awarded to David P. Bryden '57 for a thesis on federal court decision in sedition cases, and the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize to Michael Marina '57, for his thesis entitled, "Conflict of Interest in Democratic Administration: A Study of the United States Executive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Faculty Awards Students Scholastic Prizes | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...assumed as almost certain that they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the Jordanian Scrollers in the Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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