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Immediate surgery was indicated to replace a detached retina, but Scientist-Author Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, illuminator of the modern scientific mind in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, first wanted to deliver a speech as 30th Lord Rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland. The operation failed, and he lost the sight in his left eye. "I have no regrets," said Sir Charles in London's Moorfields Eye Hospital. "It was never much good anyway. I still have a good right...
...Establishment. Last month Critic F. R. Leavis subjected him to a savage literary mugging, and soon after, Snow suffered a detached retina that may cost the sight of his left eye. But last week Sir Charles ignored all trials for a new triumph: his installation as 30th Lord Rector of Scotland's ancient (1411) St. Andrews University. Snow postponed an eye operation for the ceremony. "I can't let the lads down," he said. "The eye was never much good anyway...
Refusing to answer, Snow found plenty of defenders. Author William Gerhardi called Leavis "the Himmler of Literature," Dame Edith Sitwell suggested that Leavis was jealous of Snow's fame, and Lord Boothby (former rector of St. Andrews) wrote in the Spectator: "There are plenty of beetles in Cambridge. But, without doubt, Dr. Leavis has now qualified for the post of Chief Beetle." Yet, although one critic called Snow's novels "intellectual soap opera," few discussed Leavis' basic concern, the tendency of technology to suffocate humanities...
These days, the students simply haul the new rector about the cobbled streets in a handcar, subjecting him to indignities on the way. But last week they relented for ailing Rector Snow, and he responded with an address that might have been aimed at Critic Leavis had not Snow announced its theme months ago. The title: "On Magnanimity." His main theme was that the more advanced nations of the world should show greater understanding and generosity toward the poor countries. But he turned a sharp point toward individual magnanimity, deplored "a very ugly streak of malice" in Britain, and quoted...
...ALBERT OLSON Rector All Souls Parish (Episcopal) Berkeley, Calif...