Word: rober
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson Daily News (circ. 40,000), to the Gannett Co. the nation's biggest (87 dailies) newspaper chain. But Hederman's goal of improvement survived. The paper opened bureaus in three Mississippi cities and began to send reporters to cover stories throughout the South. Says Managing Editor Rober Gordon: "We are a good newspaper trying to get better...
Associate Professor of Economics and Population Rober C. Repetto would probably agree with Maier. "Running is better than nothing, but basically it's boring." He prefers touch football, tennis, squash, skiing--and especially basketball. "I love it. I was captain of the basketball team as an undergraduate, and now they can't get me out of the IAB. It's competitive, it's a team sport, it's everything great. I had to give it up for a couple of years when I was in Bangladesh, though. They're all so teeny, it was unfair...
Ranging from fiction by Harvard philosopher Rober Nozick to science fiction by the Polish master Stainslaw Lem, the chapters provide an informative, though cursory, survey of thoughts on the brain. Mixed in are humorous digressions: a riddle that supposedly leaves thinkers catabolic (literally) and a brief parable of a man with no head. Often the pieces do not seem to interrelate, but the editors don't intend them to. Their only goal is to present ideas which will undermine the reader's complacent view of his own intellect...
Still, Heymann concentrates the greatest portion of American Aristocracy on Rober Lowell (1917-1977), the greatest literary talent of all the Lowells. Although Heymann remains reluctant to form a judgement on the matter, Harvard did little for Lowell's career. In addition to the burdens Robert Lowell carried with him, he found the University "stifling in its approach to the humanities and its indifference to anything that could be construed as modern. The Advocate rejected his poems and cut him from its comp. T.S. Eliot later described the Advocate of that time toThe Paris Review as an arena for literary...