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Another $10,000 gift was to be given to needy Harvard literary organizations, principally the Advocate and the Signet Society...
...Laos: "How I wish I could be home violating the truce accords." Down the street, Treasury Secretary William Simon hoards a series of Doonesburys drawn in 1972, when Simon was the nation's first energy czar. They show him issuing fiats from a throne and demanding "my signet ring...
...said of the Signet Society: "I found a group of token women, myself included, expected to enjoy the exist humor of a traditional stag club...
...Lear, where Kermode seems to feel required to beg the whole question of literary interpretation and retreat to the view that since Shakespeare's audience was Christian, we can safely assume the play does not mean what it says. Kermode was not so cautious when he edited his brilliant Signet edition of The Winter's Tale. Perhaps now that he's installed in a plush Cambridge professorship, his old sense of adventure will reappear. Harry Levin's general introduction to the book avoids the reductionism of setting up any simple frameworks of "Shakespeare's development" or "Shakespeare's world-view...
About 700 people attended the lecture, which was sponsored by the Signet Society...