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...knows? Maybe, in this alleged age of belatedness, of post-everything exciting, we'll reread that old essay of Emerson's ("The American Scholar"), the one which we were supposed to read four years ago before we first crossed this Yard's iron gates. And maybe we'll be persuaded by listening to that scholar who, when facing similarly recalcitrant questions and doubts, implores us, cheers us on, raises us higher, and guides us by showing us facts among appearances. Maybe, there might still be more to do. A whole lot more to do. We owe it to ourselves...
...terms of this goal, the successes and eventhe failures of the movement seem unfortunatelylimited," Friedman wrote in a 1970 yearbook essay."Nixon is still planning the patterns for thenation, and his pattern does not seem to beleading to peace. Maybe the entire pattern needschanging...
Joining Jackson as Gates watchers were technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who wrote this week's story, and assistant editor Joshua Quittner, who contributed the accompanying essay. Together they form a cybersavvy team that has shaped dozens of Time stories on information technology and the computer culture. "I don't know what we'd do without Dave Jackson," says Elmer-DeWitt. "He's our eyes and ears in Silicon Valley...
Tobias Wolff's article was the most poignant and thought-provoking short piece I have read to date on the reasons for our downfall in the Vietnam War [ESSAY, April 24]. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, and I found that Wolff has portrayed masterfully that conflict's lingering aftermath and the painful rift it has left in U.S. society. Let us hope that someday soon, via efforts like Wolff's, the rest of us will reach a higher understanding of the Vietnam vet's ongoing ordeal...
...sculpture From Hand to Mouth, a part of the Hirshhorn's collection, is not a cast of body parts of the artist but of his first wife. And finally, the parallel between that sculpture and Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek is noted in Benezra's catalog essay, though not credited as such by Hughes...