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RAINER MARIA RILKE
It seems an unlikely story. An unhappy, somewhat affected young man from turn-of-the-century Prague begins his career as a highly imitative versifier. By dint of hard work and ascetic discipline, he becomes a poet, indeed the foremost European poet of his generation. He dies in 1926, but for the next 60 years, poets from all over the world-from Boris Pasternak in Russia to Ranclall Jarrell in America-claim him as their inspira- tion and model. This man, Rainer Maria...
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AFTER MA0
American scholars analyzini contemporasy events in Commiinist China prior to its post-Ma0 "opening" to the West in 1777 had to rely largely on the official press. This did not deter some of them from hailing Mao's Cultural Revoliition during the 1760s and pooh- poohing refugees' grim accoiints. Indeed, the American Academy of Political Science held a 1772 meeting to consider (among other things) how the Cultural Revol~ition co~ild serve as a model for the West in...
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"Choosing Elites."
Basic Books, 10 East 53rd St., New York. N.Y. 10022.267 pp. $19.95. Author: Robert Klitparcl
At Harvard, 7.1 percent of all incoming freshmen are black. If the admissions committee were to choose students only on the basis of their Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, that figure wo~ild fall to 1.1 percent.
So reports Klitgaard, former special as- sistant to Harvard president Derek Bok, in a statistics-laden study of the...
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T. H. Breen
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