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Other scholars who will soon stop hearing from Harvard's financial office each month include Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Daniel Aaron, Porter Professor of English Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of Fine Arts Sydney J. Freedberg, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Harry T. Levin '33, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Lynn H. Loomis, and Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature Albert B. Lord...
...graduate-school programs shrink, many deans and professors worry about the need to foster scholarship. Theodore Ziolkowski, dean of graduate studies at Princeton, argues, "It's extremely important that some of the graduate schools in the U.S. maintain the continuity of all of the academic disciplines, from Sanskrit and esoteric forms of mathematics to 'hot' subjects like computer science and biochemistry." Although enrollment in graduate programs has remained steady at Stanford, Graduate Dean Gerald Lieberman admits, "We are afraid that the best minds will go into fields where they see attractive job opportunities, such as medicine, business...
Hostages in Iran; mendicants trampled near the Ganges; Hindus and Muslims arguing and imploring in a post-Sanskrit Babel of belief. This is the ominous Oriental setting of Don DeLillo's (End Zone, Ratner's Star) seventh and most accomplished novel. There, in prose as vivid and densely knotted as a prayer rug, his characters find freshly printed petrodollars competing with ancient formality. This, in DeLillo's phrase, is the world of "plastic sandals and public beheadings...
...week's end the White House propagandists were savoring a bit of Sanskrit wisdom: "The anger of a good man lasts an instant; that of a meddler two hours; that of a base man a day and a night; and that of a great sinner until death." Reagan, they insisted, was instant smiles. Arnold was still sore...
...Science A-18, "Space, Time and Motion," "an inquiry into intuitive, philosophical, mathematical, and physical notions of space, time and motion [also examined] in the light of modern biology and psychology; time and continuity...cosmology," precedes by a mere 713 pages, Sanskrit 202br, Paninian Grammar II, "interpretations and reworkings of Panini; readings from the Mahabhasya, Siddhanta-Kamudi, and Paribhasendusekhara." If for bluster alone, Harvard deserves some respect...