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...springs into action, sharply rapping a pencil on the edge of a glass ashtray. The unexpected tinkling sound marks the beginning of what Stacie, a senior at North Caroline High, will later call the most exciting classroom experience of her life. For the next three days, Philosopher Mortimer Adler-compiler of the 54-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World, outliner of the 102 Great Ideas of All Time-is loose again, doing what he does best, teaching. In an experimental session at Wye Plantation in Queenstown, Md., he is trying to stir up high school students...
This year's selection culminates a ten-year trend during which the number of women journalists from the electronic media in the program has grown steadily. James C. Thomson, curator of the Foundation, said yesterday. Margot Adler and Anita Harris, two of the women chosen, work for public radio and television, respectively...
Stories plainly marked "Made in preoccupied New York" include Leonard Michaels' Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz, a frenetic piece of scatology turning on the inaccessibility of a toilet; Renata Adler's Brownstone, tartly amusing observations from a Manhattan building; and Woody Allen's brilliantly executed The Kugelmass Episode. In search of a love affair, an unhappily married humanities professor from City College hooks up with a magician with the power to transport people into the novel of their choice. Professor Kugelmass chooses Madame Bovary and makes repeated visits to Yonville for trysts with Emma. The miracle has side effects...
Armed with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Latinisms, literary allusions and intricate analogies, the pugnaciously polysyllabic Buckley wrote almost half the magazine himself in those early days. He also sought out aspiring young writers, not all of them conservatives. New Yorker Writer Renata Adler published some of her first articles for N.R., as did Novelist Joan Didion, Syndicated Columnist Garry Wills and New York Times Critic John Leonard. Says Leonard, hired...
Kaufmann deals out persuasive arguments, though one suspects volume three, which will cope with Freud, Adler and Jung, is to be the grand synthesis of Kaufmann's philosophy for a new age. (He never says that's what he is about, perhaps for fear of shocking those of us who still cling to such dishonored idols as Hume, Bentham, Locke and Mill, howling about desecrations by infidels from 19th Century Germany...