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Contemplation and Search. The freshmen who are now becoming sophomores are described by academics all over the country as the quietest class in years. In part, they have seen it all in high school; in part, the economic downturn pressures them to do well academically in order to justify their...
How was Sinatra going to follow all that? His abdication announcement last week said he looked forward to contemplation, "writing a bit" and "perhaps even to teaching." The rest of the six-paragraph statement, released to Suzy, a syndicated gossip columnist and sometime Sinatra girl friend, was an apologia pro...
Two things, it seems, are required to get us out of this uniquely twentieth century dilemma. First, a new consciousness. While many will scoff at Charles Reich, there are few who do not feel that we are headed for a big show-down with history. We are profoundly pessimistic and...
The contemplation of the truths in poetry is a vital step in a student's growth. The General Education Program in the Humanities was invented for that sort of growth. How else do it? What other function can there be for requiring the study of humanities?
Introduced to Japan from India by way of China, Zen is a sect of Buddhism. Zen's rejection of the written doctrine differentiates it from the other schools of Buddhism. Studying the sutras is part of the process in attaining Nirvana (Enlightenment) for most Buddhist followers, but the practitioner of...