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KNOX -- Robert H. Abzug of Great Neck, N.Y. (South Africa); Jonathan Boorstin (Cambridge); Stephen L. Griffith of Washington. D.C. (Oxford); Nicholas R. Jones of Gates Mills, Ohio (University of London); D. Gordon Mosser Jr. of Minneapolis, Minn. (Oxford); Philip D. Ray of Raleigh, N.C. (University of London); Christopher St. John of Weston (London School of African and Oriental Studies); and Steven Varga-Golovesenko of Huntington Station, N.Y. (University of London...
Robert H. Azbug of Great Neck, N.Y. (History); Jonathan Boorstin of Chicago, Ill. (History); Bruce L. Bush of Chicago, Ill. (Physics); A.C. Dearing 3rd of Louisville, Ky. (Chemistry and Physics); Jeffrey B. Rauch of Far Rockaway, N.Y. (Mathematics) and John G. Rhodes Jr. of Tampa, Fla. (Fine Arts...
Said University of Chicago Historian Daniel Boorstin: "Dissent is now in the hands of men who cannot bear to be embraced by authority, who are at their unhappiest when their ideas, as in the case of civil rights, are accepted by the authority they have railed against...
...Daniel Boorstin, professor of American history, University of Chicago, will speak on "The Myth of Historical Perspective" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House...
...gave the social columnists and sociologists a chance to move in. "Almost a joke," said Cleveland Amory, author of Who Killed Society? "Fond as I am of Truman, I think we can say that society is not only kaput-it is Capote." Max Lerner was reminded of Historian Daniel Boorstin's observation that the events of our time turn out, all too frequently, to be pseudo-events...