Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OWLS OF THE WORLD edited by John A. Burton. 216 pages. Dutton. $14.95. Probably because their faces seem human and often take on a scholarly look of myopic wisdom, owls have enjoyed a formidable mythological reputation. Not that the more than 130 species distributed throughout the world are aware of it. As Editor Burton establishes in this remarkably illustrated survey, owls are not philosophers but predators, perfectly equipped for their occupation. They have front-set eyes that give them exceptional binocular vision. Their heads rotate 270 degrees. Their hearing is extremely acute, partially because on most nocturnal species saucer-shaped...
THAT THAT is is, "pontificates the Clown, for such is the wisdom the inhabitants of Illyria wish to hear as they enwrap themselves with madness and wonders in Winthrop House's Christmas production of Twelfth Night. Words grow wanton and fools wise before the play untangles their deceits and leaves us with the feeling that whatever...
...India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...
...much for obtuseness. On to lack of wisdom. Yes, Mr. Hall's remarks lack administrative wisdom. (The concept is not a contradiction in terms.) I'm pleased that the vice president's energy committee has held its first meeting. But has anyone consulted formally with the House Masters, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, or the Administrative Board of Harvard College? These existing institutional arrangements do serve a purpose upon occasion. It may be that the energy crisis requires drastic measures, but surely the various alternatives need to be explored first and through proper channels (Dean Rosovsky's level...
...making this effort to close down for one of the three weeks, only out of wisdom and good citizenship," Robert L. Glucksterm, vice chancellor of the university, said yesterday...