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First the murdered President became saint and martyr. But then the '60s arrived in earnest. In a study of tragedy, Critic George Steiner wrote, "The fall of great personages from high places (casus virorum illustrium) gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character." The real '60s began on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, and they turned festive and brutal too. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. His assassination became the prototype in a series of public murders: Malcolm...
...fortissime contendistis. In universitate Harvardiana, in patria, in orbeterrarum, status feminarum plerumque inferior dudum habetur. Mulieres se contemnere didicerunt. Copiae et honores et titulihominibus dati tamen feminis sunt negati . . . Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin-quendum. Ubique flagrat iniqua virorum dominatio...
...Modern Language Conference. "The Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, Erasmus' Colloquia, and Hutten's Dialogi," by Professor Francke, in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
...Modern Language Conference. "The Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, Erasmus' Colloquia, and Hutten's Dialogi," by Professor Francke, in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
...Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, Me., He was the first Senior elected to the phi Beta Kappa society this year, and has received scholarships of the first group during the past two years. He received Second Year and Final Honors in Classics. His part is entitled "De Doctorum Virorum Officiis...