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An intense, bushy-haired young professor could frequency be seen ambling through the crowded streets of Jerusalem two years ago, carrying on extended conversations with rabbis and refugees, artists and intellectuals. After searching out the colorful inhabitants of Israel's metropolis, Jacob Taubes felt he had found "deeper wisdom among...
Located in New York between 114th and 124th Streets off Broadway, the University bears a peculiar relationship to that city. As the founders insisted 200 years ago, a city needs a university. Columbia was built up with responsibility to New York in mind and has become an indispensable asset to...
Last week Promoter Stolkin turned up in Florida, this time touting real estate. He bought 3,200 acres of pastureland, named it Coral City and painted a rosy word picture of a proposed metropolis of some 40,000 citizens. To Florida's perennial optimists Stolkin announced that he will...
The pace and din of Guignol's Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader...
The present faculty, much more than a distinguished cluster of scholars, includes two Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis...