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Little Bears. The statues that the diggers found are mostly of small girls and boys, apparently used to embellish the temple. Who the boys may have been in real life remains a mystery. But about the girls more is known. They bore the title "Little Bears," for one of their duties was to perform a ritual dance dressed as bears to ward off a plague that according to legend was threatened by Artemis after her holy bear was killed by some Athenian children...
Choosing between imitations raises the matter of standards, which I suspect is the true issue of the letter. What is our policy? Do we discriminate preferentially against some writers, conspiring with others to bore and confuse the public? What do we stand for," anyway...
...stretch turn, exhausted, Ridan bore out and began to fade. The lead changed hands three times. In mid-stretch, Ridan gallantly came on again-only by now it was too late. On the far outside, Hartack was making his move. Chopping viciously with his whip, he drove Decidedly past the winded Ridan, past all the others. At the finish, Decidedly was 2¼ lengths in front...
...countless small accretions. In earlier volumes, he clearly demonstrated both his painter's eye and his remarkable facility with words. What is new in Pigeon Feathers is a more intense discipline than he has shown before. Gone are the pages of minuitae which continually threatened to bury and bore readers of his second novel, Rabbit, Run His latest short stories are cleaner, tighter, and more skilfully constructed than anything he has ever done before...
When it opened 14 years ago, the school that bore one of U.S. Jewry's most honored names (the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) had 107 freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant was the defunct Middlesex University, a few old buildings dominated by a fake castle that Architect Eero Saarinen described as "Mexican-Ivanhoe." But in naming a president, the founders made the happy choice of Historian Abram Leon Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, who exuberantly diagnosed himself as suffering from an "edifice complex...