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Robinson lived in Mather House last semester during his stay at Harvard. Before that, he taught for a decade at Yale, in addition to stints at Cornell and Stanford. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he is the author of a textbook on Anglo-Saxon, two bibliographies of writings on Old English, and more than 50 articles on various topics concerning the English language...
...form, that criticism is still heard today. Argentine Theologian José Miguez-Bonino, a member of the six-person presidency of the World Council of Churches, says, "The missionary enterprise of the past 150 years is interwoven with the expansion of economic, political and cultural influence of the Anglo-Saxon world, whether Catholic or Protestant. We from the Third World call this neocolonialism or imperialism...
This year, however, the failed smaller companies have been joined by such large, well-capitalized corporations as Braniff Airways, Wickes Cos., Saxon Industries and De Lorean Motor Co. Says Purdue University Professor William Dunkelberg: "The recession is performing the age-old process of creating leaner, meaner and more efficient firms. Unfortunately, the recession has also cut heavily into the lean and mean. We've lost established companies to low demand and high debt...
Henry Adams, who said m The Education of Henry Adams that Harvard "taught little, and that little ill," was 37 when he took up the study of Saxon legal codes and 42 when he first turned to writing the history of the Jefferson and Madison Administrations, and 49 when he laboriously began on Chinese. In his 50s, a tiny, why figure with a graying beard, the future master of Gothic architecture solemnly learned to ride a bicycle. -By Otto Friedrich. Reported...
Refusing to learn to use a computer [July 19] is as stupid as trying to achieve status by not owning a TV set. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon and medieval studies, I look forward to updating and advancing my courses through computer research. Scholarly books and articles will also be produced much sooner by using electronic methods...