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...gripping. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, English Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which Nature hateth most") as meaning that, "put bluntly, the king's youngest daughter will become a lesbian." With...
...Once onstage, Schorske gestures, grins, whispers, employs the full range of a booming baritone voice. He covers three centuries of European intellectual history in his most popular course, shifts spontaneously to suit the mood of his audience ("It's almost a cabaret thing") as he explores Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Marx and Freud. "He inspires an awful lot of hero worship from extremely bright people," says sandaled Coed Regina Janes...
...questioned by youth. Society expects the young to be rebellious, but the trouble today is that they don't even know what to rebel against. Says Author Paul Goodman, a middle-aged and professional rebel: "When the young today look back to the Bible, John Locke and Immanuel Kant, they cannot realize that all this was for real. They will have to make their own way. The loss of tradition is tragic because a generation cannot break away from a past into bold new creative patterns if it has no relationship to the past...
...many college-trained women who once were concerned with the arguments of Hegel and Kant now occupy their thoughts by analyzing the qualities of a new cleaning product or recipe...
...Smits, leads to such distortions of piety as the little girl's fear that eating ice cream right after her first Communion would "make Jesus' head cold." Belgian Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx points out that the Aristotelian distinction between sub stance and accident "has been philosophically untenable since Kant...