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...This mini-five-foot shelf will not be the last word on Faulkner. The valuable tools of scholarship have not cleared a path toward the subject; they have built a fortress around it. What the hook's appearance signifies, however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have...
...ruination of the Old West was the advent of good women, who shuttered the bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice...
...glance at a site plan will convince even the most skeptical that the court, or mini-yard, formed by Canaday's volumes is virtually identical in size and configuration to the other freshman courts (like the one between Matthews and Strauss). But when the view is focused to the personal scale, the finer level of physical treatment and sensory perception, there are some surprises. Because the buildings will have many entries, circulation lines are ambiguous. To "solve" the problem, the designers have chosen to pave most of the court. The only such precedent within the Yard is the area...
...added that individualized instruction will be provided by limiting the number of students in each mini-school...
Cheatham said that the mini-schools would be part of an educational sequence beginning in kindergarten. By the sixth grade, students would begin an "intensive exploratory" period, including some time spent in mini-schools during summers and the regular school year. Students would begin to make their occupational choices during this exploratory period...