Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity fencing team suffered its second straight loss of the season Saturday against a strong Columbia team, by a score of 17 to 10. The squad will make its third try for a victory next Saturday against the City College of New York...
...view, a single consciousness ranging on a variety of subjects or focusing on one. Most poetry is characterized by this synthesis of artist and the created personality. For poetry, it is basic; for the novel, it can be disastrous. The fusion of Zhiva-go and Pasternak admits of no third party and no alternatives. Life is as Zhivago sees it, and the arguments of supplementary characters are given very little stature. Dostoyevsky argued eloquently for all three Karamazovs. Shakespeare's universal vision was splintered into a Lear, an Edmund, and a Fool in just one play. But Zhivago's antagonists...
Died. M. Zakaria Goneim, 48, United Arab Republic Egyptologist, who in 1953 discovered a pyramid built nearly 5,000 years ago in the Third Dynasty reign of Sekhem-Khet; apparently by his own hand (his body was found floating in the Nile); at Cairo. Heralded as one of the most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival...
...Egalitarianism: "That all men were created equal is one of the great fictions," argues Griffith, and has become as absolute as "the divine right of kings." Where excellence is snubbed as undemocratic the second-and third-rate rule...
...Belief in Disbelief. In the first third of the book, Author Griffith offers his autobiographical press pass to American life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year of 1932 as a journalism student, he learned, he admits, precious little about journalism or anything else. In such "vast, endearingly inadequate academic ballparks," Griffith argues, "the indulgent curse of mediocrity in American life begins...