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...pressing social issues of our time. And even within both of those camps, there are differences of opinion over the amount of time and energy the public intellectual should devote to the public sphere. Though most agree that professors can make a positive contribution to society, current circumstances??from a media tendency toward soundbite punditry to a lack of guidance from administrators—have contributed to a general dissatisfaction with the current state of public-intellectual affairs...
...Soviet Union has opened to foreigners. Christa (Kit) Malone, no longer a lonely adolescent girl, makes a pilgrimage to Russia to excavate the true history of her relationship with Innokenti Isayevich Falin, a recently exiled Russian poet. He has vanished under mysterious circumstances??with his life’s work—and Kit has published her translations of his poems under her name. Whatever she unearths about his mystery, it is also her own: Kit’s journey to Russia reconciles her to her own past as much as to Falin?...
...someone who cared deeply about family, and someone who cared deeply about moral principles. And he stood up for them even through the most difficult circumstances?? remembered David Rockefeller ’37, a close family friend who spoke at the beginning of the ceremony...