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...figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other. That shape am I, I felt, potentially, Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate, if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. There was such a horror of him, that it was as if something hitherto solid within my breast gave way entirely, and I became a mass of quivering fear. After...
...though not badly written, carry with them a vague bit of embarrassment. We learn very little from such declamations as "How can a very small and insignificant soul break from a creed, which, if it does nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty and out principal retreat and solitude" is good advice...
Harvard has made an active effort to recruit more students from poorer schools and from areas that have sent few or no students to Harvard in the past, because they recognize the academic potential that many of these students possess...
...Piano of William Valente. These two works contrast in the same manner as the string pieces: Valente absorbs himself with motivic variation, Johnson with stormy declamation. A third work, the Sonata for Violin and Piano of James Walker, is close to Johnson, if with more reserve, for both possess a nostalgia like the piano (not the better-known music) of Aaron Copland. Finally, the sentimental harmony and florid lines of the traditional song style appear in the Three Songs of James Freeman, sung capably by Jean Lunn...
...possible challenger--if everything goes all right--could be Detroit. The Tigers possess considerable teeth with Rocky Colivito (37 homers), Norm Cash (39 homers), and Al Kaline: (.304). Detroit's infield, however, is rather leaky defensively, and their big sluggers seem to alternate good years...