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Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: "In urging you beyond ideology, I offer the view of one person, one who is clearly middleaged, middleclass, middle of the road-a view of one not given to extremes but to the middle. My middle view is the view of the centrist. I do not simply urge a long night of watching against the ideologue's delusive plausibility. I urge the positive, balanced, continuous operation of the mind and spirit that surges to do the work of civilization from the center without simplistic zealotry...
...just how long can the College, and universities in general, expect to go on coming up with new grants and loans to finance the ever-growing costs of education? The second--uppermost in enough people's minds by March so that both President Bok and Yale's President A. Bartlett Giamatti devoted annual reports to the subject--concerns what responsibility, if any, the federal government actually bears to higher education...
...decision then generally drew praise, he would probably never follow. Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti's footsteps in using a University platform to address a non-educational national issue, like when Giamatti blasted the Moral Majority during his opening address to freshmen last fall. It was only with great reluctance that the Faculty voted on a resolution condemning the Vietnam war early in Bok's tenure and the President's actions indicate the University is unlikely to ever formally condemn the arms race and nuclear was as Dartmouth's faculty did last month...
...mild ex-Unitarian clairvoyant dead 100 years, Emerson is still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche...
...Malaprop had been a politician, she would have felt right at home in the state legislature of Michigan. For the past eight years, reporters in Lansing have been collecting the most memorable utterances of the legislators, and their quotes would have done Malaprop proud. This homegrown version of Bartlett's now covers most of one wall in the capitol press room. Some show an appealing honesty. "Before I give you the benefit of my remarks," intoned one lawmaker, "I'd like to know what we're talking about." Others mangle metaphors. "From...