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...always understood by each other. This is a part of the intellectual's plight, for, says Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "if people can't tell what learned folk are up to, they may regard them as sinister." Unlike France, America has no intellectual cafe society, no small "mandarin" coteries to look to. "There is," says Philosopher Theodore Greene, "no headquarters and no head, no corporate momentum or cooperation among intellectuals. We haven't had a philosopher who pretended to know all there was to know since Hegel. The only adequate successor to Hegel would be a committee...
...staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings," but far more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft and vision, he evaded the fate Scott Fitzgerald had in mind when he wrote that there are no second acts...
...Seattle last week, 640 leading citizens sat down to feast on mandarin chicken, pineapple chicken, Cantonese beef, steamed rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
...variety of courses open to these potential area specialists. In the East Asia program, for example, there are 51 possible courses scattered through various departments--History, Government, General Education, Fine Arts, Anthropology, Economics, Social Relations, and Far Eastern Languages and Literatures. It may seem a big jump from "Advanced Mandarin Conversation" to "The Representation of Nature in Europe and Asiatic Art," but to the East Asia student, the gap merely shows the great distance he must span to became truly well-versed in his area...
...which has to work them. A glad greeting to students who misapply their mathematics, to footballers out of training and wives on a diet, and a special thought for the lovers in Widener reference. Good resting to the students of Paleontology and Stratigraphy and those who converse in Advanced Mandarin, and happy times too for the men who sweep up leaves on windy days. Big eating and long sleeping to Faculty who cite the Fifth Amendment, to students walking Garden Street in black capes, and to sophomores parked in restricted areas. We think especially of the girls of Radcliffe College...