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Philosophical Conundrum. For those who came in late, it should be explained that The Music of Time is narrated by Nick Jenkins, who, like Powell, is of Welsh origin, with family connections with Army and "County," went to Eton and Oxford, and is currently engaged in literary criticism. Previous installments have taken Nick through school and university, and have looked fixedly at English high life and business. The current episode concerns that curious interbellum miscegenation between Society and the Arts dealt with so brilliantly in the satiric masterpiece of Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. Its period is that Slough...
With over one hundred professors but no faculty, the Institute for Advanced Study is an unique academic conundrum. The Institute is located in Princeton but is in no way tied to the University. It is exceptionally rigid in its entrance requirements but after admission requires nothing of its members. On these paradoxical principles of education, the Institute has founded its unusual program...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...annual instructors, and twenty-four full and part time teaching fellows. The Economics faculty has been enlarged to the limits of availability, but besides increased teaching burdens, staff time formerly devoted to tutorial has been sapped away by other interests, such as General Education and Area Studies. The financial conundrum is not lacking either: the pressure of steadily increasing costs throughout the University threatens a limit to the size of a staff which the department could support...
...sine we do no know whether Moscow's intentions are honorable or otherwise, how can we say whether American foreign policy should be one of toughness or of compromise? We cannot; and therefore the goal of an effective foreign policy necessarily becomes the solution of this perplexing conundrum...