Word: professor
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...Basel a few critics tried to take a longer view, and delivered some hedged but daring predictions. German University Professor Wilhelm Boeck concluded: "An artistic event of intercontinental size that will surely affect the development of European painting. It places America next to Paris as a first-class power." Said Frankfurt Critic Albert Schulze Vellinghausen: "It's new and it's strong and it's important...
...widely prevalent and intellectually debilitating relativism" of American life, writes Presbyterian William Lee Miller, Yale Divinity School professor, religion is being spiritually sapped. For Americans religion is apt to be "the belief in believing, the faith in faith"-exemplified by the radio program called This I Believe, which had "plenty of 'believe' and quite a bit of 'I' but not very much of 'this.' " There is an inclination to hold almost all positions to be equally valuable and true...
...report generally agrees that legal action cannot excuse all concerned from using their brains and consciences. So far as the law can act, however, Mark de Wolfe Howe, Harvard law professor (and a nondenominational Protestant) has some significant suggestions. He seems far less worried by the religious partisans than by the Jacobins. He notes that there are a number of possible "aids to religion which do not appreciably affect the religious or other constitutional rights of individuals." Under the First Amendment, he feels, even such aids should not be offered by the Federal Government. But he thinks that state governments...
...Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...
Author Guerard (The Hunted, Maquisard), 43, is a Texas-born Francophile who is currently professor of English at Harvard. He writes with a Gallic coolness and clarity, and with the sure French eye for the inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan...