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...literary material written before 1900. The quality of literature written in earlier times is certainly not inherently better than material being turned out today; however, earlier literature is a known quantity, while more recent material has yet to be evaluated. Fully 95 per cent of all human problems which confront the practicing lawyer are not unique to the twentieth century. The great beauty of English literature between 1550 and 1900, and the Greek and Latin classics, is its limited quantity...
...this season, Jon Bock and Steve Cohen at attack have been the most prolific scorers, but it is here that they must confront Harvard's depth, with Crimson stickers Charlie Kittredge, Carter McDowell, Tom Scott, and Jim Taliaferro...
...problems multiply as an ever-increasing number of film societies confront an ever-diminishing market for serious films. University audiences seem to prefer the familiar to the arcane. Attendance at comedies of the 30's and 40's have benefited from the latest wave of nostalgia, along with monster pictures and cartoons. In general, though, the interest in older films has been diminishing...
...book captured the popular theological mood of the '60s better than Harvey Cox's The Secular City. "Men must be called away from their fascination with other worlds-astrological, metaphysical or religious-and summoned to confront the concrete issues of this one," wrote Cox, a professor of religion at Harvard Divinity School. His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion...
Within the past two weeks, the three major TV leadership groups merged into a new PBS in order to confront CPB as one united body. The new group has proposed the creation of a "monitering committee"--representing various factions in public TV, including CPB--with power to decide disputes over "balance and objectivity" in public affairs programming. They also reiterated that CPB must not assume control of the scheduling function of PBS. On April 13, CPB will announce whether or not it will accept this compromise. WGBH's Rice contents that. "The next two weeks may be the most crucial...