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...divestment and deplored the "intransigence" of the Harvard Corporation on the issue. At our fifteenth reunion, we voted to reaffirm this position. Unless current members of the Harvard community can bring sufficient pressure to bear on President Bok and the Corporation, we may be reaffirming it again at our twentieth--if the racist government of South Africa has not fallen by that time. Jonathan M. Harris...
Music was Bach's great love, as music--especially Bach's--is Wolff's. But Bach composed and performed in the eighteenth century, while German-born Wolff, one of the pre-eminent Bach scholars in the country, researches, teaches, and perform in the twentieth...
...implication is that Rob has added another wife to get another kid, that he is so child-crazy that he can't stop schtupping until he has permantly destroyed any hope for zero-population growth in the twentieth century. That's not so funny...
...induce it. "The twentieth century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.). Now onesuch might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical and a romantic, but then...
Marquand Professor of English and American Literature David D. Perkins '51 quoted T.S. Eliot in calling Johnson "the best Augustan" in a presentation he gave on the influence of Johnson and his contemporaries on twentieth century poetry...