Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN A LITERARY CRITIC sets out to write a novel of fantasy, he'd better be sure of his inspiration. The profession has had its share of success in the genre; C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are only the most celebrated of a long line of academics to turn their esoteric knowledge into imaginative epics. But there is always a danger lurking in the author's fascination with his own private world of symbols: if he gets lost in it, he can easily forget his duty to tell a tale...
...author's zeal to communicate an obscure but not inherently tedious theory of religion overwhelms him, and he does not live up to his chosen role of myth-maker. Bloom clothes his doctrinal argument in a flimsy mantle of epic fantasy. He would probably have done better to write an essay than this dreary mess...
...Radcliffe squad remained a big question mark until Saturday. The heavies' big wins over Williams last week were a nice way to start the season, but a crew victory over the Ephwomen is not really anything to write home about. Graves and her crew knew that the big test would come this weekend in Princeton...
...take sophomore tutorial in their first year at Harvard, they must enroll as advanced standing students in the fall, Davis said. He told the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) an "intensive tutorial" combining sophomore and junior tutorials might be the best answer to the problem, and added he would write to the departments "eventually...
...comprise a great bulk of the almost 8000 runners in the Marathon, will have no news of their athletes' accomplishments. The large, commercial dailies will not provide special attention to specific runners from specific schools--there are too many other concerns. Only the college papers have the space to write about their own athletes...