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...different light from your first position that you wonder why you ever thought otherwise before. That happened to me over the course of this year with the Barker Center, Harvard's new humanities building, where the scholars of Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevski, and Ralph Waldo Emerson now reside...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Reminiscing at Barker | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...helps a writing career. Look at Hemingway. Look at Dostoevski. Look...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Losing Through Insemination | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

...Dostoevski, a compulsive gambler, once wrote that he had had an orgasm while losing a large sum of money on a bet. To each...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Losing Through Insemination | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

Since the 1940s the United States has poured many millions of dollars into Russian and Chinese studies. Is this because our society had suddenly developed a passion for Tolstoi, Dostoevski and/or Ming vases? Or is it that we faced certain national needs in which the help of the universities was essential. If this is the meaning of political motivation, Afro-American studies undoubtedly fits the bill. At the same time, I would conclude that more political activity of this type would be highly desirable...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Black Militancy: A Special Case | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...these require that the sociological perspective be coupled with a medical approach to the problem. Not coincidentally, Dr. Mark is an associate professor of Surgery at the Medical School while Dr. Irven is an associate professor of Psychiatry. Their book reflects this schizoid nature-Lorenz, DeVore, Aristotle, and even Dostoevski's The Idiot are listed as references right along with scores of neurology medical research papers...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: Books Violence and the Brain | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

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