Word: poggiolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment has important philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
...lecture with: "There are too many people in this course. Auditors, go homel" A week later he was able to boast, "I chased all the auditors off in a day or two." The trouble was that many who had come as auditors stayed as regularly enrolled members, so that Poggioli had to announce, "We are moving from Emerson A to Longfellow Terrace. It should be very interesting teaching Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Longfellow...
Once in Longfellow, Poggioli could not resist making another attempt to get rid of a few students. "This class," he said, "will meet promptly at 11:10. Supposing you come in after 11:10--if it isn't raining why don't you take a walk...
Slavic 155 gives students a chance to read almost all the major works of Dostoievski and Tolstoy. Professor Renato Poggioli plays the Grand Inquistor in Emerson...
Other members of the committee are John P. Coolidge '35, associate professor of Fine Arts; Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; and Huntington Cairns, director of the National Gallery in Washington...