Now, should you bring up Harold Bloom outside the walls of academe, with someone who has managed to keep something of a private literary passion intact, you’re far more likely to find that they share some warm feelings for the man. “Oh, that Shakespeare book changed my life,” a postgrad Shakespearean once admitted to me in a pub—a sentiment I doubt she ever shared with her famous Columbia professor, who himself joined many other reviewers in trouncing Bloom’s Shakespeare back in the 1990s. Like her professional colleagues, this woman understood that despite any personal interests she might have had, to be really up to date always means consenting to the current fashion. And that fashion is (as perhaps it has always been) to say that only now has academic study even begun to figure out the right ways to study the literature of the past.
Watch naval traffic worldwide。新收录的资料对此有专业解读
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Well, perhaps it only feels busier than normal, as both Samsung and Apple decided to squeeze in their major product unveilings just before and just after MWC.
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The future of electric cars arrived this week in China. The world’s biggest car seller, BYD, unveiled a new battery giving its latest electric models more than 600 miles of range. Remarkably, the Chinese motor-maker said 250 miles of range could be injected into its new batteries in just five minutes. If true, the last remaining advantages of petrol cars – long range and quick refuelling – are beginning to disappear.