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Probably one of the few persons in Widener who has a sigh of regret when the library closes at ten each evening is Harry Austryn Wolfson, Harvard's Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. With an enthusiasm unabated today by forty years of research and teaching, Wolfson works as nearly around the clock as he can in Widener B-45--a study crammed to utter confusion with books, pamphlets, and papers that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with...
...Playhouse theater. This opening night of The Glass Menagerie had proved what many critics and theatergoers had long believed: that Laurette Taylor was one of America's great actresses. Among the flowers and the telegrams stood a bottle of Scotch, the gift of testy Critic George Jean Nathan. It was a special kind of a tribute, and Laurette understood. She wired: "Thanks for the vote of confidence...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street on the first Sunday of the month, May first, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives...
...String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann; Capitol); Mendelssohn's Elijah (soloists, choirs and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips; London...
...learned academies in France and Italy had both compiled dictionaries for their own countries, Britons, said Dryden in 1693, "have yet no English prosodia, not so much as a tolerable dictionary, or a grammar; so that our language is in a manner barbarous." The best reference book around was Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, but the Bailey brand of definition, e.g., a mouse: "an animal well known," was hardly adequate. Finally, a group of booksellers got in touch with Johnson, persuaded him to compile a dictionary within three years. "But, Sir," remonstrated a friend...