Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasis we place on formal education rests on a belief that someone who is intelligent must be "book-smart" or "well-read." Especially at Harvard, we stress that an intelligent person needs to know such information as who Kierkegaard was, what Tolstoy wrote and why the Boer War was fought. While this information may be important in a certain context, it is not a sufficient test of who is "smart...
...also, in a traditional sense, the conclusion of the tale. Charles Baxter, 40, the author of two fine collections of short stories, has not only come across an interesting idea for an experimental narrative but has managed to translate it into convincing fiction. The book's epigraph, from Kierkegaard, provides the key: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards...
...discuss them with his rare visitors. Then the South African government began seriously to consider releasing him as a "humanitarian" gesture, fearing he might die in prison and thereby touch off an uprising in the black townships. Some official might have remembered the warning of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "The tyrant dies and his rule ends; the martyr dies and his rule begins...
...antics may seem comical to anyone who remembers a sketch by the Second City acting company that portrayed a U. of C. football player confusing left guard with Kierkegaard. Maybe that is the intention. Insists Herman Sinaiko, dean of students: "I want happy students. If they're sitting around worrying, they can't read Dostoyevsky the way they should." The students seem to be getting into the spirit of things. HO, HO, reads a T shirt being sold by a group of undergraduates. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS FUNNIER THAN YOU THINK...
Percy is aware that this forbidding subject requires a light touch. In fact, most readers know the author as the genteel Louisianian who wrote such mournfully charming novels as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins. But there is also Percy the Dixie Kierkegaard who wrote The Message in the Bottle. That 1975 collection of essays attempted to relieve the ache of self-estrangement by arguing that humankind was the glory of the universe because it was the only known species that used language (as distinguished from the intelligent communication of chimps and dolphins...