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...characters, is not an exclusively modern event (it is probably part of the romantic desire to see heroes in villains and vice versa, that made Satan the hero of Paradise Lost), though it has gained great impetus from the horrors of anti-semitism in the twentieth century. The basic font and origin of the trouble with The Merchant of Venice is something nearly unique in Shakespeare--an unresolved tension between an Elizabethan stage convention (the evil Jew) and Shakespeare's own meaning...
This situation is not really apparent to observers out around the nation, where Harvard is viewed primarily as a font of "radical" ideas, as the generator of more Galbraiths and Schlesingers than of Bundys or Moynihans. If you read any of the Nader reports you are likely to be impressed by the large percentage of Harvard students and faculty listed among the researchers. But this sort of genuine concern for the welfare of the underprivileged or unjustly treated has seemed rarer to me as this year has moved along. Even correcting public misinformation seems of slight concern to Harvard faculty...
...symbolic sense they have been frozen still more by Western art history, which has tended to interest itself in African art only to the extent that it was cannibalized by Picasso, Braque, Brancusi and other European artists, becoming a font of style for cubism and expressionism. This helped Europeans see it as "real" art, instead of mere curios or portable anthropological data. Still, the stereotype must be got rid of before African art can be understood in relation to its original audience...
...Font of Truth. Catholic Theologian David Tracy, writing in a recent issue of the Christian Century, recalls the period somewhat ruefully: "Has Einstein spoken? Fine, but really-if you look hard and long enough, it's all there in Aquinas. Are you looking for an aesthetic or political theory . . . applicable to the modern situation? Fine, read Thomas. Do you want an adequate contemporary theology? Master the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles." Even before the Second Vatican Council, some progressive Catholic theologians were abandoning the kind of worshipful Thomism Tracy describes. After the council had ushered...
Outwardly, the tailored lawns and brown Gothic buildings of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis give every evidence of serenity. The very name of the school-the 135-year-old academic font of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod-is Latin for "harmony." Last week, however, Concordia, the largest Lutheran seminary in the world (690 students), was closed down by a student and faculty boycott. The reason: Concordia's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, 45, had been ousted on charges amounting to heresy...