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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most readers must have found your translation of the football description "Der Reporter" quite amusing. I, for one, was delighted to find an outsider's views of the game printed for Americans in a less egocentric context...
...publications (29 entries in the Widener catalogue) that are all admirable and nearly all different. Probably his best known works is Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, a book which he published at the age of 35 and which revolutionized all Aristotelian scholarship, and set the context for virtually everything that has since been written on the subject. Characteristically, however, Jaeger looks back on the book less with pride than with a sort of parental indulgence. "I was young then," he explains, "and wanted to tear down tradition wherever I found...
...jibes at the prospects of a maidless college. The CRIMSON was at once called Fascist and Communist for its stand on one particular issue. Letters should be under 400 words, and the editors reserve the right to abridge them if space limitation makes this necessary. No changes in context will be made, however. Letters must be signed, but names can be withheld by request...
...famous, Carl Milles's Fountain of the Tritons, next to the Art Institute itself. By the early '30s, city planners had begun losing their enthusiasm for heroic busts and bronzes, and the Art Institute took the precaution of getting a court to rule that "monuments" in the context of Ferguson's bequest could also mean "buildings." This year the Art Institute leaned on the old court ruling and announced that it would use the Ferguson fund accumulations to finance a new Art Institute office building. This, explained the Institute, would free some...
Four Steps Backward. Taken in larger context, the Soviet groveling at Belgrade was all the more interesting. It represented the fourth recent major reversal of an important Russian position. Within a fortnight, the Soviet Union has 1) signed an Austrian peace treaty that was less favorable to it than a treaty it had been rejecting for years, 2) announced a new disarmament plan that, while still unsatisfactory to the U.S., offered more concessions than ever before, and 3) agreed to Big Four talks "at the summit" under conditions that the Communists had previously denounced. For months, Soviet leaders had said...