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...18th century's greatest physician looked and acted like some crazed quack in a horror movie. A squat, curmudgeonly eccentric, he jounced through London in a cart hauled by three Asiatic water buffaloes. A moatless drawbridge guarded his rambling home at 12 Leicester Square. In the fetid basement of his country villa, a vast copper cauldron was kept at the boil; there he melted down human and animal corpses to get fresh skeletons for his grisly pathological museum of pickled fetuses, stuffed one-eyed pigs and cock-plumed hens. There may have been, as his contemporaries thought, more madness...
...moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages, even after 22 children were figured in, averaged 62. By last week, when it stopped, the caravan had covered 14,800 miles and gone the length...
...here and effectively prohibits giving tenure to other desirable scholars. But his more important reservation about this fine faculty concerns its relationship to the odious undergraduate body. The great scholars have every right to ignore undergraduates (it is sometimes difficult to understand why more of them do not) and squat in a corner of Widener deciphering Ogam Stones. One can only hope, for their sake and the University's, that what most of them produce is "worth" the upkeep of their studies and the amount of departmental stationery they consume. It is still very sad that these dull...
These men are laborers used by the U.S. armed forces for minor construction work in 1945 on the island of Tinian. Most of them were of Korean descent, transported to the Marianas for use in the sugar-cane fields. I admired their ability to squat all day while shaping the coral for the dwarf wall they were building. Even during their rest period they would hunker, sophisticated style...
...seen it rising above squat Moscow, Napoleon might have paused. For the 32-story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What...