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Schwab argues that the Oriental, or Indic, Renaissance was a second Renaissance fueling 19th century Romanticism that "marked the close of the classical age, just as the classical Renaissance had marked the close of the medieval age." He compares the significance of the arrival of Hindu manuscripts in 19th century Europe to that of the Hiad and the Odvssev following the fall of Constantinople four centuries earlier. The term "Renaissance," according to Schwab, implies "a rediscovery of knowledge married to new creation." The crucial difference he perceives between the two shifts in thought, however, is that while the first affirmed...
...trespass (possible rap: two years). When Klop fer got a hung jury, Judge Raymond Mallard declared a mistrial. Subsequent ly, the "trespass" Supreme cases in Court light of tossed the out 1964 similar Civil Rights Act, which desegregated public accommodations. But Klopfer remained in jeopardy: 18 months after the indic ment, Judge Mallard allowed Solicitor Cooper to make use of a "nolle prosequi with leave," meaning the power to re instate the prosecution at any time he pleased...
Picking out an old Michael Innes, Gridley took the elevator down to Level D, struggled with the vault-like door and issued into the moderate gloom that enshrouds Sections HunL, Oc and Ind (Hungarian Literature, Oceania and Indic Studies). Gridley chuckled sardonically as he walked through the country's largest Hindi collection, musing that Harvard didn't teach the language. Finally he reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold...
...conversation is understandably lively, and goes on in knots up and down the table. Here there is a discussion of the foreign policy of Afghanistan, from which unlikely country a Junior Fellow whose field is Indic Philology has just returned. There the question turns to the operational definition of concepts, and the degree to which it can be applied in the social sciences. Here a defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed...
...were Daniel H. H. Ingalls, assistant professor of Indic Studies and Rupert Emerson, professor of Government...