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...shouldn't I make a buck off this thing?" Max, 52, asked as he thumbed through journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, The American Scholar and Political Science Quarterly while researching the appropriate point spread. Max, who has run a small book for 20 years to supplement his income from various odd jobs, takes wagers on ponies, ball games and everything else, including "two rats running across the street." He's booked local elections in the past but decided to try the big leagues this time, thanks in part to the money-grubbing example set by the candidates. "These guys...
...perfect example of a scholar-librarian," says Director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53. "He's both a curator and a distinguished author, both in poetry and as a novelist. That's a wonderful combination...
...Grass, "[I am] one of the great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...
...know his work very well," Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology David G. Mitten said. "He's probably the leading scholar in Western medieval art. His books on all kinds of things, especially medieval art and female monastic communities, have been groundbreaking works...
...dynamo of a teacher and a scholar," Mitten said. "She has two great fields of expertise in which she is equally brilliant...