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...intense and almost single-minded concentration, many Americans seemed to want a respite from national and world affairs. Last week neither Cuba nor a somewhat shaky Common Market, neither the laggard 88th Congress nor the problems of the Atlantic Alliance, sparked much interest. Said former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow: "Like most people, I haven't fully comprehended that the President is gone. I think the general mood is very mixed-one of sorrow and of comfort. Luckily, there is no international crisis at the moment." But there was some talk about the health of the economy...
Even some progressive churchmen agree that evangelical Christianity represents a step toward maturity of the conservative impulse. "Conservative Christianity is growing by trying to become respectable," says Dr. Nels Ferré of the liberal Andover Newton Theological School, and he credits it with seeking "an intelligent evangelical faith. The conservative movement is neither an obscurantist fundamentalism nor a negative modernism-and it is making inroads everywhere...
...rather more concerned with the portion of history, the system of philosophy, or the period of literature under discussion. Science tends to be entirely preoccupied with the present, while the humanities is built upon a concern for works of the past--the concern of a physicist with Newton has almost nothing in common with the concern of an English scholar with Shakespeare. And in science, truth is single, there is only one correct answer to a question, whereas in the humanities there are many answers to all but the most trivial questions...
...separate announcement, Dean Ford said that Albert Szabo, associate professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Architectural Science. Szabo will replace Prof. Norman T. Newton, who is retiring...
...past five years, the Education School and Arts and Sciences faculties have selected a few candidates for the M.A.T. degree to participate in a similar program on a trial basis with Phillips Andover Academy and the Newton public Schools...