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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...
...last six minutes, Eli back-up quarterback John Jones passed for one score and ran for another. The points pushed Harvard's undefeated season into never-never land. As time ran out, Crimson back-up signal-caller Brian Buckley added six more points on a pass to Rober Jenkins...
...place where a very large deposit of cultural evidence can be inspected and compared in depth at the best possible level of aesthetic quality. The role of such a collection is to defend us against one of the great American vices-provincialism in time. And so-floreat! · Rober Hughes...
...indisputable factor in Stravinsky's conversion to serialism was the arrival within his household of Schoenberg's former research assistant, the young American conductor Rober Craft. In addition to becoming Stravinsky's rehearsal conductor, literary collaborator, companion and surrogate son, Craft was the unofficial custodian of the Stravinskian image. In this role especially through a series of remarkable "conversations with" books, he enabled a wide audience to savor the composer's pungent personality...