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...prize-winning novelist, poet and critic delivered a speech entitled, “How I Became A Writer” as part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean’s Lecture Series...
...halting delivery, he often seemed like he was desperately fighting off a speech impediment. But one always held out a faint hope that the words themselves were packed with meaning, obscured by Rudenstine’s colorless manner of speech but there nonetheless and only waiting for a diligent critic, a Boswell to Rudenstine’s Samuel Johnson, to reveal the depths of our president’s wisdom...
...America’s politics and people. The newest excoriation comes from James Laxer, a Canadian political scientist and social commentator who teaches at York University. Laxer was a leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party in the 1970s and in recent years has been a staunch critic of economic globalism. His most recent book, Discovering America—published in Canada as Stalking the Elephant, in reference to Pierre Trudeau’s famous description of Canada’s relation to its behemoth neighbor—fails at every turn to offer new and insightful criticism...
...axioms that he has chosen to live by. What exactly is “truth” and what does it mean “to know”? To Weinberg, truth is learned through observations, and we test theories by how they conform to those observations. To his critics, the very nature of who Weinberg is affects those observations, and thus they can’t be counted on to deliver the fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard to come by. In fact, it seems...
...frenetic as the pamphlet grew into a paperback. From the students who made an index by using three-by-five cards to the faculty members who contributed essays, the book inspired the most wonderful sort of communal effort. Professor Caldwell Titcomb ’47, the musicologist and theater critic, soon joined us as a co-editor. Next, we sought the expert guidance of the late DuBois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, who, with Ewart G. Guinier ’33, had brought the Afro-American studies program through its early years...