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Died. E.M. Forster, 91, British novelist (A Passage to India) and sage (see BOOKS...
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...RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Patricia Roberts Harris, LL.D., former dean of the Howard University Law School and former ambassador to Luxembourg. You have always advocated progressive change which rests on the framework of the rule of law. Virginia Harrington Knauer, L.H.D., Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs...
...Roman emperor Juvenal is recognized in history for his domestic policy of bread and circuses. Sage enough to realize that the slightest expression of widespread popular discontent could send his regime toppling, he fastened upon superficial appeasement of the masses as the solution to his own social problems...
...climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...