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THROUGH the historian's craft, Richard Hofstadter gave us a clearer understanding of our American political and intellectual heritage. He possessed a rare talent for illuminating the past as a means of interpreting his own times. To the field of history he brought methods and theories from sociology, psychology and related fields; in turn he furnished historical perspective to the behavioral sciences. Hofstadter was both a student of intellectual history and an historian for the intellectuals...
...time in college to have been extraordinarily maturing and rewarding. Difficulty brings self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs inner strength and self-renewal. We see now in part only through the darkened glass. It will be your task to help make that vision clearer for yourself and for those near and dear to you through courage, faith, hope and love which have sustained others before you through trials every bit as great as yours. Go forth and be strong...
Whether the cease-fire will survive for its full 90 days-and what happens after that-will become clearer next week. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban plans to be in New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. He will use the visit to see Jarring and state Israel's position. Mrs. Meir, who was scheduled to visit President Nixon in October, has also moved up her visit and will come to the U.S. in mid-September. If the U.S. is unable to force the Egyptians and Soviets to remove the missiles from the cease-fire zone...
...young revolutionaries who have come to prominence have accumulated a clearer public record than Angela Davis. Yet when she was charged with murder, the record, as always, left the same tantalizing gap: Who, really, is the woman behind the known facts and the favored, middle-class girlhood...
...longer one talks the clearer it becomes that Ulstermen are fighting one another not over the future or even the present but the past. Like many of his friends, Ball has the upraised red hand tattooed on a forearm and is fiercely proud of the sash of his Loyal Orange Order lodge. "It's handed down for generations," he says. "My father belonged, and he handed his sash down to my elder brother." Ball says he would not shrink from the showdown he fully expects - even though "if I was to get shot and die tonight, Maureen would...