Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Educated in Geneva and Spain, Borges, as John Barth notes, "seems to have read almost everything." His lectures and writings are scholarly without being bookish. (He deprecates "Cyclical Light," an early poem, as "priggish." "Of course I was young when I wrote it. I had to work in all those Greek names.") The broad background frames but never inhibits his intelligent, singular and personal world. Robert Lowell, introducing the fantast at a reading Wednesday night, called Borges' work amid that of other writers "always an oasis in a sea of competence...
...only student publication read or at least scanned by a large number of students at Harvard is the Crimson. There are, of course, literary magazines, humorous magazines, magazines for the social sciences, drama reviews, semi-professional magazines, and assorted newsletters. Some of these publications, both good and bad ones, are deliberately aimed at limited audiences. The ones which aspire to universality, however, tend to suffer from inconsistent writing, unimaginative editing, or lack of funds. A daily newspaper with these shortcomings will probably still be scanned. But a college magazine can't get away with mediocrity...
More than ever before, this season professional football needs its rookies to fill up its ranks. Injuries are ripping through rosters so steadily that sports pages read like medical reports. Even sanguine Coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers admits: "These days, we're happy to get out of games with our lives...
...fact, the museum's potency as a symbol or cultural repository has been debatable for years. Surfeited by riches it has no room to display, gorged with books it offers little space to read, it is half-buried in the artifacts it seeks to preserve. For every object on display, nine more gather dust in grimy warehouses. Although the museum has more than 9,000,000 books, its reading rooms hold a scant 390 chairs, are nearly always packed despite a sponsorship system that bars all but scholars from using them. Stacks are so inaccessible that the waiting time...
...Johnson exhorted the industry to help "close the understanding gap" that divides white and black Americans. "Broadcasting," he said, "must take the lead in that effort." Johnson quoted a recent study reporting that nearly two-thirds of ghetto homes had TV sets and 100% had radios, while only 14% read newspapers...