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Jordan was last month reported to be one of three frontrunners the subcommittee would recommend as possible speakers. Two other public figures under consideration were Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Librarian of Congress...
Among its most important members: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Attorney General Edward Levi, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz (though he only studied at Chicago for a summer en route to a doctorate from Purdue), Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, Presidential Adviser Robert Goldwin and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. The biggest representation is at the State Department, an almost exclusively Eastern preserve until after World War II. Now Chicago takes credit for the department's No. 2 man, Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State who was educated at Yale but is a trustee at Chicago...
...immense erudition too vulnerable...for his most ambitious work to prevail among contemporary generations." But some of those contemporaries were more generous. Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison said that "he was one of the few people who dared to write on the broad sweep of history." Daniel Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians have spent themselves so unstintingly or so effectively in the effort to transcend the provincialism of their time and place." Toynbee felt that there was a kind of intellectual provincialism, too, in what he called "the dogma that...
...past period that people somehow survived seems in retrospect more manageable than today's open-ended uncertainties. Daniel J. Boorstin, the social historian, believes that "the contemporary time is always the best time to live. It is a mistake to say the best age is one without problems...
...special project that TIME inaugurates this week: a series of Bicentennial Essays by distinguished scholars on various aspects of the national experience, which will appear periodically through early 1976. The first of these essays is published in this issue: an analysis of the growth of American nationalism by Boorstin, who was professor of American history at the University of Chicago for many years, and is currently director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology. Boorstin is serving this project not only as an author but also as an adviser and has worked closely with...