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...leading spokesman for the Unitarian cause in the early nineteenth century, Channing preached what Emerson called "sublime sermons." His was a life of the mind, as he grappled with the central issues of his day. Andrew Delbanco believes that Channing's inner life may best be understood through his public utterances, and examines the way his subject spoke as well as what he said. In his biography of Channing, the author acknowledges an abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from...
...Delbanco is not interested in Channing alone, though he hopes to "help restore Channing to the canon of American literature." He is concerned with the development of the liberal spirit in America in the early nineteenth century. William Ellery Channing is not so much a biography of a man as of an age. It is the story of religion, literature and politics in an experimental democracy, and their intimate and inevitable relationships. Channing serves as an emblem of this age, a man whose religious training and thinking helped draw him into political engagement. Delbanco argues that he is more than...
...burgeoning divisions of general medicine has really outstripped the supply of qualified faculty in primary care," Dr. Thomas Delbanco, director of the primary care fellowship, said yesterday. Many present primary-care physicians have not received any special training in the field, he added...
Andrew H. Delbanco '73 of Dunster House and Cambridge received an honorable mention for his historic essay, "Community: The Persistance of an American Ideal...
David B. Brownlee of Dunster House and Cherry Hill, N.J.; Andrew H. Delbanco of Dunster House and Larchmont, N.Y.; William T. Djang of Eliot House and Roslyn N.Y.; William C. Fuller of Kirkland House and Lincolnwood, III,; Ralph J. Hexter of Lowell House and Shaker Heights, Ohio...