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...conservative patriotism, many liberals still identify their brand with John F. Kennedy, a leader forever associated with unfulfilled promise. If Reagan conjured the past, Kennedy downplayed it, urging Americans to instead grab hold of the future. He liked to cite Goethe, who "tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only...
...think you are worried because you want your lives not just to be conventionally successful, but to be meaningful, and you are not sure how those two goals fit together,” Faust says, according to a copy of her prepared remarks. “You are not sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious, brand-name organization together with the promise of future wealth will feed your soul...
...Faust calls on seniors to find work in line with their passions...
...don’t try to do what you love—whether it is painting or biology or finance—if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it,” Faust says in the speech...
Harvard has made progress in strengthening the arts despite a year-long vacancy in the associate provost position, as University President Drew G. Faust created a University-wide arts task force last fall and secured a $30 million gift dedicated to the arts this spring...