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Noel said he's disappointed that the Ivy title turned on a technicality, that his decision to report the violation was a tough one, and that "the last thing I wanted to do was cost Harvard the championship." But he explains, he "owed it to Columbia Coach Ron Rousseau," adding, "We should not try to find the impetus of the decision: it was a set of circumstances, an obligation from one coach to another...
Every volume was a bestseller. The tenth, Rousseau and Revolution, won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize. Yet the very qualities that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On the other hand, he was capable of aphoristic wisdom that any academician would envy ("A nation is born Stoic, dies Epicurean...
DIED. Ariel Durant, 83, Russian immigrant who as a 15-year-old student in 1913 married her American high school teacher, Will Durant, later collaborating with him on the eleven-volume magnum opus The Story of Civilization, and sharing with him the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Rousseau and Revolution, No. 10 in their series; in Hollywood, Calif. Durant worked unofficially as a researcher and collaborator on the first six volumes of the series, but her name appeared as a coauthor on the last five, as well as on their jointly written A Dual Autobiography...
...probably have to go back to Adlai Stevenson to find a national politician well-versed in national culture and literature and able to articulate a coherent philosophy without pandering. And Stevenson's tendency to sermonize and orate over people's heads probably disqualifies him, too, as even approaching Rousseau's ideal of a foresighted and persuasive leader...
...lasting inspiration to many, much as his 14 Renaissance-men heroes so obviously have been to him. Perhaps some day, one who idolizes Foot--on either side of the Atlantic--will assume power. Then, perhaps, we could learn what a broad-minded visionary could actually to, and whether Rousseau was right, after...