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In his letter, Rosovsky lists six attributes he believes typify what he terms "an educated person." Before students qualify for their degrees, Rosovsky wrote, they should be able to think clearly, be acquainted with all the methods used to understand the universe, with foreign cultures and with ethical issues, have...
5) We should expect an educated individual to have good manners and high aesthetic and moral standards. By this I mean the capacity to reject shoddiness in all its many forms, and to explain and defend one's views effectively and rationally.
In answer, one of the Premier's aides argues that "Peres wages psychological warfare." The personable, quick-witted Minister of Defense is a much finer speaker than Rabin, handles the press well and thus frequently outshines the dour Premier in public. Peres' supporters, moreover, have tried to malign...
Heinz was a multimillionaire at birth, thanks to the food-processing empire built by his antecedents-he calls it "that little pickleworks down in Pittsburgh." He has diplomas, manners and diction from Exeter, Yale and Harvard Business School. He does wondrous things on ski slopes, plays hand tennis and jogs...
Crosby is sometimes portrayed as the epitome of the entire "literary generation" of the '20s. Wolff argues convincingly against this characterization; even if one accepts the questionable concept of a literary generation, it is difficult to see why Crosby should be chosen as its representative. At best, he symbolized its...