Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center, a day in the life of a fellow begins as early as 7 o'clock. The morning is sacred territory, generally reserved for the "project," the book proposed by a candidate as part of his reason for coming. Each fellow has a study with the inevitable sliding glass door leading out to a first-floor terrace or a second-floor balcony. Before noon the most delicate knock on a resident humanist's door requires supreme courage. Even the ring of a telephone constitutes a gross intrusion...
...Douglas, from the English department at Columbia University, actually changed her project after coming to the center, giving up "American Saints of the Victorian Era" for a less highfalutin subject: "Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and the Literary Life of New York in the 1920s." "There's a broader audience than the university is telling us," she insists, voicing a favorite wisdom of the center...
...This is what I mistakenly thought academic life would be like when I decided to be a teacher," says John Agresto, 33. "We'd say profound things. I thought in my innocence we'd debate the great issues. Here, we actually...
...fixed in thought from early dawn until noon, until sunset, until early dawn of the following day. The image may seem comic at first, but it be comes moving and finally majestic, even though nobody ever learns what Socrates was thinking. Plato gave the only explanation necessary. The unexamined life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back at the center, the talk flows on. For now, at least, the dialogue is sufficiently rich in wit, affection and charm to prove that the examined life is well worth living. That, in a year like 1979, should be justification enough...
Politics is the life force at the center of Government, and the attempt to retreat from it is one of the worst mistakes of the past two years. Just about the time that Jimmy Carter seemed to be developing the necessary skills of power brokering, he picked up that sappy idea for a single six-year presidential term, which he thinks would allow a President to "ignore politics" and "stay away from any sort of campaign plans and so forth...