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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admiring good will, President Grayson Kirk sings his praises as "an able and exciting teacher," the Graduate English Department information desk bears the legend "Only Charles Van Doren Knows All the Answers." and his students decorate the blackboard with such questions as "For $52,500, what did Plato mean by Justice?" At St. John's, where only two faculty members deign to own TV sets, President Richard Weigle went to a neighborhood bar to catch last week's show...
...exemplified in the Montini-Tardini situation. Monsignors Giovanni Montini and Domenico Tardini labored long in the Vatican as equal advisers to the Pope until Pius XII appointed Montini Archbishop of Milan two years ago. At the next consistory, Montini will surely be made a cardinal, and that should normally mean a red hat also for Tardini, now pro-Secretary of State. But Tardini refuses to be a cardinal; he has all the power and honor he wants, feels that the ceremonies attendant upon the rank of a prince of the church would interfere with his work...
...burgeoning world of amateur industrial ball-there are bush-league teams of no mean ability from Florida shipyards to Massachusetts textile mills and West Coast aircraft plants-the N.I.B.L. is the big time. Denver Chicago President George Kolowich may be a few years away from the world-beating team he wants, but last week showed that his expensive investment in amateur basketball is beginning...
...businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer in the 1950 season, was beaten so roundly that the next year his salary dropped...
...intelligently, it must be done openmindedly, it must not be done as a tour de force in order to have done it, nor as a technique for professional advancement or respectability. Any reader who is not changed by a book has not read the book. But this does not mean that reading is the only experience nor that the world of books is in itself adequate. One of his great complaints is that intellectuals live too much in the world of Literature, a vice even if books are realities. American intellectuals, he notes, are ignoramuses. They simply do not know...