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Calabrese said he is aware of a sentiment among more radical students that the Student Assembly could diffuse energy previously funneled into effective demonstrations against the administration. "I don't think there is a grand conspiracy to co-opt student power, but I think it has occurred to them [Harvard administrators] that if they don't provide for student input into University decisions, they'll have a dangerous situation on their hands ...They probably realize it's in their own best interest to work with the Student Assembly instead of ad hoc demonstrations. This will funnel student energies so that...
From the day in December 1963 when Kenya achieved its independence from Britain, the life of that magnificent East African nation has seemingly revolved around this single question. Last week Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya and perhaps the last of the grand old men of the African nationalist movement, died in his sleep at his resthouse on the Kenya coast. On the evidence last week, it appeared that the nation he had founded would be able to carry off that rarest of African political events, a peaceful transition of power...
...anything like these visionary schemes will ever be possible. Indeed, for all the enthusiasm about black holes, some doubts about their very existence linger. But the current intellectual ferment about them transcends the importance of both their reality and practicality. Just by thinking on such a grand scale, humanity not only enlarges its universe but expands and ennobles itself. Perhaps the ideal metaphor is not Piglet's Heffalump but Browning's famous declamation: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,/ Or what's a heaven for." To the growing fraternity of black-hole theorists, that cosmic vision...
...shared Kant's conviction that freedom was the principal issue philosophy had to address. For Wittgenstein, freedom resides in the ambiguity of language; for Heidegger, in the fluid, indeterminate character of being; for William James, in the workings of a moral will. What Kant considered the "other two grand questions," God and immortality, issue from our awareness of the liberty that lies "within our own hands"-for Barrett, the freedom to believe...
...centuries, opera librettists snubbed The Duchess of Malfi. The cut was unkind, since her tragic tale is the very stuff of grand opera. John Webster's play, published in 1623, is admirably lurid and complicated. There is the Duchess's secret and forbidden marriage to her steward Antonio. There are her two evil brothers: Ferdinand, who is driven mad by incestuous passion for her; and the Cardinal, who schemes to be Pope. After her marriage is discovered, the Duchess is imprisoned and tormented by madmen. At the end, everyone dies violently...