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Such distinctions, however, are precisely those which ought to be made. A proper liberal-arts education, the kind which Harvard still prides itself on offering, should cultivate in its students an appreciation for and dedication to the life of the mind. Traditionally understood, this implies not a ravenous appetite for promiscuous knowledge regarding all sorts of curiosities and trivialities, but rather the pursuit of truth and the contemplation of beauty. The liberal arts were those studies befitting the liber, a free man—one free not only from physical enslavement but also the more debilitating and servile subjection...
According to the statistics you cited, all deaths are related to an accident or a disease. Thanks a lot. Until I read the article, I was planning on a painless death in my sleep many years in the future. Now I have something to worry about. ROD LIBER Los Angeles...
...brief opening segment, which Marianne narrates, we find her racked with uncertainty, despite her auspicious surname. (One wonders if the French isn’t also intended to include echoes of Latin liber, “book,” as it is presumably Marianne who has written down the tale; Sadie herself proudly proclaims, “Everything I tells you happen long ago. Me I remembers it just like morning…No need to write it down.”) Having just received a marriage proposal from a Chas Freeman, who vanishes quickly after having fulfilled this...
...Liber scored an additional deuce to lead another Terrier outburst--this one of only four goals . B.U. now led 12-3 putting the game out of reach...
Kaminer, who is the author of books on women's equality and a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, named Roger Baldwin, the founder of the American Civil Liber- ties Union, as her choice for person of the century...