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Very sad. I didn't know much about him 'till this year, when he gave a series of four lectures in Cambridge on literary criticism and the revival of philology, as well as several seminars on the Israeli-Palestine problem. He was clearly extremely ill at the time (he had to sit down to give his last two talks), but the lectures were perfect exemplars of his customary clarity and good sense, as well as of the astounding width of his knowledge. Needless to say, he packed out the largest lecture room in the university without effort. What was most impressive was the sheer range of people who came together to hear him-entire benches of senior professors from different faculties, as well as hundreds of undergrads and grads.
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