Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marriage is a desperate thing," wrote the 17th century English jurist John Selden. Three centuries later, after 13 years of seeming marital bliss, the two main characters in J. R. Salamanca's superb new novel suddenly discover what complex anguish Selden had in mind...
...Françoise Mallet-Joris's observation is unusually wary and intense, perhaps because her creatures move in a society held rigid by theology where diabolism is as real as rock-a milieu not merely strange but very nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell...
Although the marriage ends with Margaret's disappearance from Cap Ferrat, it lives on in Michael's mind, recounted and reflected upon there in a sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, often tender and usually elegiac tone. By using the erudite Michael as his narrator, J. R. Salamanca succeeds in finding an appropriate vehicle for his insights and his fluid poetic prose. Few writers have shown so perceptively that love and marriage are not as simply connected as the horse and carriage...
...society, the university is a necessity. In the technological and organizational society that is contemporary America, there is no other place where radical analyses can be pursued with the length and the depth necessary to make them more than mere ephemeral desert flowers in the realm of the mind. Among the great purposes of the university is to be the refuge and the strength of a critical theory of society. Of course, in the existing socio-economic system, radical scholars will form only a part of any university and probably a small part at that...
...glories of Harvard is its generosity with research support, including support for the junior faculty. In the Government Department, for example, nearly every junior faculty member devotes half his time to research with the support of one of the many Centers which have divided up the realm of the mind into spheres of intellectual interest- The Joint Center for Urban Studies, The Institute of Politics, The Center for International Affairs, and the East Asian, Russian, and Middle Eastern Research Centers. If a member of the Government Department wishes to convert his radical thoughts of U.S. foreign policy into a radical...