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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...
...these poems, Honig most often adopts a position of removal from the subject he is treating, so that even his description of a very personal incident in "Do You Love Me?" combines dispassion with its emotional impact: ". . . Her dying sigh denies/The quiet settling idly on/His polished shoe. One blunt toe/Gleams back a flawless eye at him/As he dangles from the sigh." The poet reports single acts or aspects of the circus: the morality or the moral are implicit in the way he sees them and transmits them to the reader. And it is at this point that Honig the poet...
Born. WEU (pronounced like a sigh of relief); in Paris, in the state dining room of the British Embassy. Western European Union consists of Great Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, gathered together in mutual defense...
When Princess Margaret arrived back in Great Britain from her Caribbean tour last week, palace press officials breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone agreed that her trip was a great success, and her press relations were marred by only one unfortunate incident.* To the royal press secretaries, any such tour is a ticklish matter. At home the rules for press coverage are clearly drawn, i.e., the only official news on the royal family is handed out in daily court releases. But when royalty goes ajunketing, an entirely different set of rules applies. When the Queen Mother came...
...state-chartered farmers' college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...