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...central units are residential sectors of approximately 240 acres, designed to house 15,000 people. Each is an inward-looking, self-contained neighborhood, with its own business center. The city can be expanded almost indefinitely by adding new sectors; yet, growth will not lead to depersonalization, Le Corbusier believes, for each sector forms a coherent community...
Physically, James "took the cure" at the baths of Teplitz. Academically, he obtained it in Dresden, Berlin, and Heidelberg where he studied under Du Bois, Reymond, Virchow, and Helmholtz. And for his spiritual malaise he subsituted at moments what he called "a sort of inward serenity and joy in living, derived from reading Goethe and Schiller...
Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis." The result is "an extraordinarily productive environment," says Kerr-one that puts the multiversity squarely in the life of society rather than being an inward-looking "house of intellect." The multiversity cannot go back: "Knowledge is wanted, even demanded, by more people than ever before. Knowledge today is for everybody's sake...
Among the speakers is John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley will deliver a speech entitled "The Inward Voice of the Classics" this morning. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, will also speak today...
...emancipation of the former colonial territories and the turning inward of Europe have both taken place independently of the Cold War. Indeed, these two phenomena are more closely related to each other than to the rivalry between the two continent-states. Eastern Europe has been swallowed and digested by the monster in the East. But the monster in the West has allowed the Western Europeans to determine their own destiny, and they have done so by joining together to save what is left of Europe from complete disappearance. So far, the United States has resisted the temptation to accord...