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...last year, most people found the course to be intensely rewarding not for the intellectual stimulation alone, but also because they had the opportunity to interact with problems in health care, food additive safety, energy production, government control of industrial pollution, and other areas, by first-hand experience in the wider community. Those who wished to do library projects did them--and they too had a hell of a lot to contribute to the discussion...
...interested in the concept, but he himself had relatively little ability to achieve it. Nietzche once speculated on how pathetic a man Shakespeare must have been in order to create so much. It would seem the same theory of compensation might apply to Disney. His own failure at first-hand creation led him to assemble everyone he could to do the work for him while he did the thinking. Not even his distinctive signature was his own design...
Certainly one of the real reasons for the vote is that Kissinger-with his first-hand knowledge of how Nixon Administration decisions have been made-would be a valuable intellectual asset to the department. In a recent conversation, Huntington implied this reasoning by saying the department felt that "if he came back in a reasonable period, he'd be better than when he left...
...ahead, he will be one of the major figures with whom the U.S. must deal in the attempts to contain the dangerous Arab-Israeli conflict and to keep it from becoming a Soviet-U.S. confrontation. Last week Secretary of State, William Rogers flew into Cairo to make a first-hand assessment of Nasser's successor. Rogers was also interested in exploring one of Sadat's latest initiatives: a proposal for an agreement between Egypt and Israel on reopening the Suez Canal...
...having been amazed to read in Tuesday's CRIMSON that Nikitas Sioris, the Greek Minister of Education and Religion, was to be not only officially welcomed as a visitor to the University, but even accorded VIP treatment. Knowing as I do, partly from reports of friends whose knowledge is first-hand, but also from newspaper accounts, of the criminal acts of Sioris' ministry (in annulling elections to university chairs, in summary removals of incumbents, in overt interference with the right of teachers to teach what they think is the truth-all on fascist political grounds) I naturally could not imagine...