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...Paul Selver translated The Good Soldier Schweik into English in 1930, and it won a lot of admirers in that form--the New York Times, for instance, used to periodically announce that the Czech national character as portrayed by Hasek made the victory of the Czech revolution over its bureaucratic opponents inevitable. Since the Soviet invasion, Svejk's appearances in the American press have been less frequent, so maybe it's time for a new translation on those grounds alone. Moreover, the old translation took out all the obscenity and most of the blasphemy in the novel, which left more...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Hasek's Heroes | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Present at the meeting, among others, were Kenneth L. Hurwitz '70. New England campus co-ordinator for the Washington-based Vietnam Moratorium Committee: Charles E. Schumer '71. President of the H-R Young Democrats; Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government; Paul D. Selver '69; and Holly C. Evarts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Anti-War Activists Prepare National Peace Campaign for 1970 | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

...Selver, a first-year student at the Law school, and Miss Evarts headed the H-RStudents for Lindsay group this fall, Representatives from the state chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, and from the Citizens for Participation Politics-a remnant of the McCarthy campaign-also attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Anti-War Activists Prepare National Peace Campaign for 1970 | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

...Being All There" ($72): "Conducted at Miss [Charlotte] Selver's studio, 315 West 57th Street, rear (4L)." Her theme: "We often discover that we are not fully aware, unable fully to experience-neither relate nor function-because we are still in the past or already in the future, while we act in the present. Clinging or being ahead of oneself diminishes the full play of the organism's potential. The Taoist attitude of intellectual silence, practice of inner quiet, fuller awakening of our inner and outer senses, bring us new depth and presence in what we experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: All There? | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

Research on this project began in July, 1947, under Drs. Bertram Selver-stone and William H. Sweet of Massachusetts General Hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isotopes Help in Tumor Discovery | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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