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Born in Laredo, Mann spoke border Spanish-"Tex-Mex"-almost as soon as he spoke English and acquired a lifelong fondness for the neighboring Mexicans and the Latin temperament. All but two years of his State Department service were spent in Latin America or on Latin American affairs. He was ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk...
...anybody else. But what if it had to contend with a contemporary Soren Kierkegaard? Incensed by vicious newspaper attacks on his personal beliefs and eccentricities, the great 19th century Danish philosopher flayed the press both aloud and in his journals, the final volume of which is now available in English (The Last Years: Journals 1853-55; Harper & Row; $6.95). Sample scorchers...
While harsh and sometimes cruel, student judgments do not necessarily downgrade the taskmasters. Slate contends that Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says...
...course." Notorious for name-dropping, he tosses in references to "and then I said to Einstein, 'But Albert . . .' "?and his audience, as on cue, hisses in chorus. Wald pretends to ignore this, actually loves it. "He isn't really teaching," says Freshman Tom Zanna. "He's inspiring." Radcliffe English Major Valerie Rough says she is "spiritually majoring in biology" because Wald makes it "so esthetically appealing." Harvard Dean of Arts and Sciences Franklin Ford says Wald generates an "amazing quality of intellectual excitement...
...something they want to say to the world beyond their classrooms. Every teacher needs time to reflect and explore the frontiers of his field if he is to keep his teaching fresh. But whether all kinds of research always help teaching is problematical. Too often, says University of Utah English Chairman Kenneth Eble, scholarly magazines are established merely so that they can be "sent to editors of other magazines," and the scholar's great goal is to "write enough books about other people to become, well within his lifetime, the subject of still other people's books...