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...male and female scholars, (though I suspect the latter were a bit slighted). And I caught a few shocking bits of biased male scholarship, like "Emily Dickinson was extremely feminine in her aversion to intellectual abstraction and speculative argument." Sometimes the biographers are also annoying in their effort to bestow superlatives: the greatest writer or actress or one of the twelve greatest living women...
...bestow on me the certitude That You exist and are mindful...
...Woodrow Wilson Award-one of the highest honors that Princeton can bestow on an alumnus-went this year to the youngest recipient in history. Because, said President Robert F. Goheen, from his "determined and persistent efforts we may look forward to more safety in our mines, highways and factories, less explosive accidents in our gas pipelines, cleaner meat and poultry on our tables, and broader public representation in the management of large public corporations," the $1,500 prize was awarded to 38-year-old Ralph Nader...
Others followed, few of them in the liberal mold of most existing Jewish journals. Berkeley produced the ultraprogressive Jewish Radical, Long Island University the conservative Dawn, Boston the polished, thoroughgoing genesis 2. The Jewish Liberation Journal, one of the few with a national circulation, began to bestow a nose-thumbing "Uncle Jake Award"; one in 1971 went to a Philadelphia Jewish group that gave a $50-a-plate dinner for then Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, the hard-line law-and-order man who is now the city's mayor. At Washington University in St. Louis, a periodical appeared under...
...could define it. It is our distrust of ourselves that leads us to look for leadership elsewhere; it's because we are alienated from the people closest to us that leadership must come from a distant figure. Hence, we continue to pick our glorified candidates, mortals upon whom we bestow an imagined "gift of grace...