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...movie Shakespeare in Love) fairly reek with erudition. Invention, having its U.S. East Coast premiere at Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, is no exception. Eloquent and witty, it's also intellectually challenging. On one level, the play is about A. E. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth. It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry). There are some snooze-inducing stretches dealing with English academe, but overall the deeply rewarding Wilma production sparkles...
...says Harvard will hire any professor in any field. There's only one small requirement for any scholar to get on Williamson's hit list: he or she must be the best in the world...
...University convenes an ad hoc committee including President Neil L. Rudenstine himself to examine the scholar's writings and teaching. An offer isn't extended until all sign off: the department, Knowles and Rudenstine. After the go ahead is given, potential professors are wined and dined until they agree to come to Harvard...
Whenever any student organization or school within the University wishes to invite a well-known scholar, government official, or public figure to visit and speak here, the University Marshal's office is the first necessary stopping point...
...Kinky S&M parlors, dark dungeons of pictorial pleasure - anything can pique the interest of a sex-deprived scholar. But to really dig for the dirt first-hand, here's what to expect in your crusade for porn...