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...verse, and when they presumably lose their pristine shine in the process of translation. It has taken 20 years for The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to reach English in hexameter from its original modern Greek. The poem has not been translated into any other language and so is virtually unknown outside its native Greece. But in it, chances are, U.S. readers have a masterpiece at hand, in a fine translation...
There are many "unknown" works in musical literature whose neglect is unfortunate, but nevertheless understandable. Cherubini's second Requiem Mass, which the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performed last night with the Williams Glee Club, is one of these...
...varsity hockey team, with what it hopes was just a sad mistake behind it, travels to Vermont today to oppose a Middlebury team which is largely an unknown quantity. The Vermonters opened their season yesterday at West Point against a very weak Army sextet and emerged with an 11-1 victory. However, as Middlebury coach Duke Nelson points out, the win did little to establish anything about his squad except that it can beat Army...
Discovery. Says Chemist Reuben G. Gustavson, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska: "Twenty-eight years of teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...
...freezes in a cold-water flat, still depends on the discriminating small collector who cares more about his instincts than his investments. But the flood of money into the art market is testament to the new status of art in the scale of values of U.S. culture. Even those unknown artists who do not benefit directly, or at once, can be grateful. As long as prices are posted over lunch counters, artists will go on taking an interest in the relation between the price of what they sell and the price of what they...