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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dalai Lama spent three days in Boston this week, speaking publicly twice, attending receptions and participating in a seminar at the Divinity School--all part of his 46-day visit to promote "compassion and love and closer understanding between the various types of religions," he said Wednesday...
McKay is not the only half-truth in the novel; Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor in the 1850s and the national biologist in a golden age of zoology, plays a small but acidulous part in the book. "I have been accused of character assassination," McMahon says, "but in fact his character is a lot worse than I said. He was famous for exploitation of the young people in the museum, for signing his name to their work. The accusations came so credibly and so often, that even his biographer concluded there is a lot of truth to them...
...finally does put the pieces together--the unlikely hero is a sniveling Dutch embassy employee--it is about ten people too late. Sobhraj--who has escaped from prisons and tight situations like a super criminal--proves mortal. Having tred the fine line between sanity and psychosis for the better part of his life, he finally slips into a murderous abyss...
Handlin may remain a disappointed man for some time. Truth from accurate evidence is only one part of the search for real history. The other is selection of evidence from uncertain sources and interpretation; these will always remain judgmental decisions...
...intervention to extremes, however. We should cure disease, he says, because germs are "meddlers," interrupting the body's natural harmony. Thomas, in his enthusiasm for simplification, has mistaken the environmental position of these organisms. Disease-producing bacteria should certainly be eliminated but they are as intricate a part of the natural world as the body they attack...