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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded positive thinker doling out pep talks to the dispirited...
Recently, new light has been shed on the genesis of the disease. Although "mono" is officially designated as "infectious mononucleosis" in text books, it is relatively non-contagious. Roommates do not give each other the disease and infected students do not transfer it in open wards. The "infectious" part of the title applies only to very close contact between the carrier and the uninfected. A report from the U.S. Military Academy suggests that "an intimate mixture of saliva . . . may transmit the disease." Thus, one might trace the disease to beer bottles or cider jugs. The West Point paper, however, gives...
Jaeger has devoted himself to this "contemplative life" ever since 1897, when, as a nine-year-old student in Lobberich, Germany, he got his first Latin text book and worked all the way through it immediately "because it was so interesting." He went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin, taught there for a year, and then, at the age of 27, was named Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland--the same chair that Nietzsche had occupied. From there he returned to Germany and a professorship at the University of Kiel, and then...
...inevitably begins to discuss his own life, work, and thoughts. In another academician this topic would be boring, but something is different as Jaeger talks on in his slow, clear English--describing, say, the thrill of puzzling for days over the meaning of a certain word in an ancient text, and then, suddenly, getting the answer and throwing up both hands "as a free man again." While Jaeger talks the light in his eyes and the soft laugh in his voice gradually take effect, and the listener is soon as excited as the Professor about the supposedly dull "contemplative life...
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