Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seniors were sitting around an Eliot House dining hall table last week. Conservation was listless. After one particularly lengthy pause, one senior piped, "Did you read about the new parietals?" Two others muttered, "Yeah." The silence resumed...
...smuggled out of the Soviet Union, some of Russia's best writing has been published only in the West. Despite its liberalization since Stalin's death, Russia remains full of talented, frustrated authors who are denied an audience in their own country and hunger to be read. Publication abroad can lead straight to prison-as it did for Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who in 1966 were sentenced to seven-and five-year terms for allowing their biting satirical novels to escape across the border...
...recommend a merger to shareholders. In an exchange of stock worth $350 million, Western Union will become a part of nine-year-old Computer Sciences. Jones pointed out that his company and Western Union had been working with each other for four years developing ways to transmit computer read-outs over telegraph circuits. As a result, he said, they share "an awareness of what a combination of the two companies could achieve...
...present-day writer seems likely to succeed at smashing the "Fitz-Omar cult," it is Robert Graves. At 72, he is established as a leading British poet, an adroit translator and an iconoclastic critic and scholar. He does not read Persian, but worked from an annotated crib prepared for him by Persian Poet Omar Ali-Shah, who claims that the manuscript has been in his family for 800 years. Yet this new Rubaiyyat suffers from Graves's apparent inability to decide whether he was writing more as a translator or as a poet. He may well have failed...
...Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves's critics have not been permitted to examine Ali-Shah's manuscript. Thus the lay reader can only read Graves's Rubaiyyat as an English poem and decide whether it speaks for itself...