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Wyzanski enjoyed a reputation for a rarely equalled intellect and a fondness for friendly debate. "He had a talent for provoking people into discussion and disputation," said Law School Professor Emeritus Paul A. Freund, a longtime friend.
I attended the University of Chicago, which I greatly admire and enormously enjoyed. At Chicago, in the late forties, faculty and students were united in devotion to the LIFE INTELLECTUAL. To a person, we gloried in the values symbolized by those words. We saw ourselves pilgrims in the American cultural...
Are UNESCO's pronouncements "incompetent" because they are hostile to the West? And wouldn't truly a unique "Western case" be inherently biased? On the same New York Times opinion page a few days later in December, William Safire, who usually is known for a bit more intellectual and verbal...
In the U.S., where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only...
As computers get more skilled at searching out audiences, new magazines proliferate. There are now about 60,000 periodicals, new and old, published in the U.S. and Canada. Their subjects range from Patchwork Quilts to Gun Talk, not to overlook Dirt Bike magazine. Many of their readers concern themselves with...