Word: steiner
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Following the selection Tuesday of a Boston lawyer to investigate Harvard's commitment to Indians, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, yesterday said Harvard has not violated any agreements concerning Indians...
...legally open its pub until after the University obtains a license to sell beer and wine. Cephas said that "it's a safe assumption" that Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, will obtain a beer and wine license for Harvard within three weeks...
Summing up, Steiner proposes that "the major question for Europe is where the best of American civilization, with its great efficiencies, its uses of color, space, fabric, its ideas of comfort and speed of communication, can successfully meet with the values and traditions of the old world." Perhaps surprisingly, Steiner finds that ground of "creative collision" in Northern Italy, particularly in Milan. Thanks to the ancient strengths of the country-part Catholic, part Latin, part landscape -Northern Italy "has successfully avoided the second-rate Americanisms you see elsewhere in Europe-gas stations that don't work as well...
...impressed by such Italian theatrical and musical artists as Milan's Director Giorgio Strehler, Conductor Claudio Abbado and Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, he is bored by the country's literature. "There are not many good Italian novels, probably because the Italian language has become over-rhetorical." Like Steiner, Kaiser is impressed by the intellectual ferment in France, particularly "the discussions influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and the structuralists on one side and the Sartre pupils on the other." But except for the novels of Michel Butor and Claude Simon, whom he considers the most talented exponents...
Kaiser also agrees with Steiner that German literature is in an era of creative ferment, partly because of the country's tradition of being open to influences from the East. On the other hand, he is skeptical of Russia's growing body of literature of dissent. "One shouldn't forget that everything that came from Prague in 1968 was, for purely political motives, a bit overestimated. One closed both eyes and found it a bit better than it was. This might also be the case with Solzhenitsyn today...