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Reasoning like that must be what has given the Boston College School of Nursing its world renown...
...young could begin to feel the chill of history. Last week London's Melody Maker magazine announced that its annual readers' popularity poll placed the Beatles in the No. 2 spot-behind the hard-rock quartet, Led Zeppelin. Since the group rose from Liverpool to world renown eight years ago, it was the first time the Beatles had ever slipped below...
...case, Sukarno's heyday in the '50s and early '60s marked him as one of the most colorful figures of the century. He hobnobbed with Nehru and Nasser, lectured the West, won a mixed renown for nonalignment among developing nations and overalignment with well-developed women...
Literary scholarship-which Forster loathed because it reduces writing to a rational rubble of themes and trends -will no doubt have little trouble in assigning Forster's influence and renown to sensible causes and perspectives. Forster grew up, after all, in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances (Tonbridge school; King's College. Cambridge; an inherited income of ?8,000 a year). His confrontations of plot and apparent symbolism at first seem to fit easily enough into the new century's dramatic reaction against the massive structures and stifling legacies of Victorian England: passion and beauty v. respectability...
Died. Joseph Wood Krutch, 76, author and critic, who in his later years won renown as a naturalist and conservationist; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Prolific as well as scholarly, Krutch reviewed plays for the Nation from 1924 to 1952, during which time he published a dozen volumes of literary biography and theatrical history. In 1950 he left New York for Tucson, where he fashioned a new career out of his love of nature; his writings celebrated the land and its creatures (The Desert Year, The Forgotten Peninsula, The Great Chain of Life), and expressed a yearning for a simpler...