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...Georgetown University
This is the thesis of Jesuit William Lynch, literary critic and assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, and one of the most incisive Catholic intellectuals in the U.S., as he expounds it in a new book, Christ and Apollo (Sheed & Ward1; $5). Manichaeans are every where, says Lynch, particularly in the arts. His case against them: instead of looking directly upward for insight into the in finite, the true way up is the way down -into the finite facts of life. The literary imagination, striving to ascend to free dom, must descend into things, and the model...
...nation's capital the topic, naturally, was the Democratic White House steeplechase, and two front-row spectators, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Columnist Joseph Alsop, found themselves offering advice and opinion to each other at a Georgetown dinner party. Democrat Acheson made no secret of his partiality to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson as the ablest of all the Democratic presidential candidates. Alsop volunteered: "Why, I'd do anything to make his nomination possible." "Excellent, Joe," retorted Acheson tartly. "Attack...
...embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...father himself was an expert on currency engraving for the U.S. Treasury Department. Despite the family's connections in high finance, young Quesada had no dreams of becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...