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Ordinarily, such speculation is about as profitable as wondering what Hamlet studied at Wittenberg. But given its woolgathering premise, Heathcliff is a remarkably accomplished and engrossing novel. It is also a first-rate act of literary impersonation. Caine introduces convincing versions of Lockwood and Nelly Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury...
...married Don John of Austria, the illegitimate brother of Philip II of Spain. Such history tinkering, though, can go on forever. Suppose Don John and Mary had established a Catholic England. Would cross-Channel Calvinism have undermined it eventually? Suppose Luther had been unable to find a nail in Wittenberg for all those theses. Or better, suppose Guedalla's Boabdil had crossed the Pyrenees and swept through France, creating a Moorish Europe. Might there be mosques in Manchester today...
...winners were: First prize of $25, Carolyn Jabs for her poem "Sonnet in Terza Rima." Carolyn is a 1972 graduate of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. She was a student in the Harvard Summer School Publishing Procedures course. Since Monday, August 14th, she has been working for Harper Row in New York. Second prize and $15 went to Barbara Manschreck for her poem "On the Evolution of Phenomena or What Crazy Maggie Shouted to the Pigeons." Barbara has done graduate work in English and is currently studying theology at the Boston Theological Institute. Third prize and $10 went to Laura...
...performance should not be belittled. Many of its wrestlers had never seen a mat before last November. "None of my boys wrestled in high school-this is a brand new sport for them-but they do have spirit and they love to wrestle," coach Henry Wittenberg said...
...rejected similar offers from three other top law schools-Duke, Chicago and Harvard. He hopes to become a lawyer (and future politician) as fast as he became a college graduate. For one thing, he has a family speed record to defend. Next fall his younger brother James will enter Wittenberg-with 20 out of the required 36 credits. If he maintains Tom's pace, James will also graduate in one year, but at the age of 18, compared with...