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This bushy-haired, blue-eyed man in a wrinkled shirt, who seemed so pleasantly surprised by my visit, was until last year Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. A leading Shakespearian scholar, he is teaching two courses on the playwright in the Summer School. During the regular academic year, he was at N.Y.U. In the fall he will "relieve a chap at Trinity, Dublin, who wants to come over here for a year." This is Professor Alexander's first trip to America. "It's a big show," he said, and he used...
...students is that the "education of young people here is more general. I didn't find any lack of intelligence in the people I taught at N.Y.U., but I couldn't count on--I wasn't clear what they had studied before they came up to the university." In Scotland, all students must pass exams in very specific subjects...
...celebrated before a priest. Despite such off-putting rules, roughly one-fourth of all Catholic marriages in the U.S. and Germany involve a non-Catholic partner-and there are thousands of other Catholics who, breaking canon law, marry Protestants before ministers. Many Protestant leaders, including the Church of Scotland Assembly and Germany's Evangelical Church hierarchy have warned against mixed marriages so long as the strict Catholic rules prevail. A number of progressive Catholic bishops have asked Rome to change the rules on mixed marriages, and the fourth session of the Vatican Council will probably outline the norms...
...size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather and sad. Nicknames are enough for the hazard: "The Twin Fangs of the Lady of Fife," "The Valley of Sin," "Hell Bunker." For a topper, there is the weather. The word "links," after all, originated in Scotland. It means "golf course by th sea," and in the case of St. Andrew; that means the North...
...recognize me," she said. > Dan Gurney, 33: the Grand Prix de France, averaging 108.7 m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen-Les Essarts. The Californian's victory was overshadowed, however, by the magnificent performance of Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 Grand Prix champion whose Lotus blew a piston on the pre-race practice lap. Running on only seven cylinders, Clark still leaped into the lead at the start, broke the track record four times, was 161 sec. ahead of Gurney when he had to quit...