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...long career as a British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge, 61, one time editor of Punch, has more than earned his reputation as an incorrigible professional iconoclast. Muggeridge is never happier than when assaulting the Establishment - any Establishment. "A royal soap opera," was his considered judgment, in the Saturday Evening Post, of Britain's royal family. Last week, in the lively New York Review of Books, Critic Muggeridge opened fire on a transatlantic target: the John F. Kennedy legend...
...Religion. In Rome, a happier prophecy also came true: Vespasian became Emperor. As a protégé of the court, Josephus was able to devote the rest of his life to his massive histories: The Jewish War, and Antiquities, a 20- volume history of the Jews. While fulsomely admiring his adopted country, Josephus sought to explain and vindicate the Jewish people, to communicate the unique sense of theocracy (he is credited with coining the word) that was to pervade the Christian world. He wrote: "The whole nation is fashioned for religion. Practices which other nations call mysteries and sacred...
...graves of his maternal grandparents ("Joseph W. Baines . . . A True Man, A Loyal Citizen, A Dedicated Husband and Father, A Faithful Christian") and sent New Year's greetings to the Soviet Union's rulers, asking the Russians to join the U.S. in efforts "to make this a happier and safer world for all peoples...
Getting a gift of several million dollars "won't make your life any happier," the Ford Foundation's James W. Armsey warns panting university officials. Though the money "is comforting to contemplate, the new level of excellence the grants are designed to help you reach is disturbing and disruptive to achieve." Since 1960, the foundation has generously disrupted ten universities and 47 private liberal arts colleges with gifts amounting to $200 million. Last week Ford raised the total by $18.5 million, awarded matching grants to Brown, Brandeis, and the University of Southern California...
Allen never quite found that place in the "emotional blackout" of Harvard, but Cambridge is a little happier after a week of his Whitmanic tenderness. The University would do well to allow its guests to set more ample, variable standards of behavior, rather than to insist upon the sometimes artificial protocol of "normal society...