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DIED. Philip K. Hitti, 92, Syrian-born Orientalist and professor of Semitic literature at Princeton (1926-54) who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islamic cultures in the U.S.; in Princeton...
Hookers, happy or otherwise, do not necessarily lack the puritan virtues of hard work, thrift and capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Lasch, a history professor at Rochester University, legitimately finds cracks of doom in our sanguinity. His thunderings shrivel our "ironic detachment," his term for a sense of humor...
...Professor Lasch is not amused by what he calls a "cultural radicalism": the decadence of American individualism. Its chief symptom: "The pursuit of happiness to the dead end of a narcissistic preoccupation with the self." The Narcissus of mythology, infatuated by his own reflection, pined away because he could not consummate self-love. Lasch's new narcissist has similar anxieties but feels no guilt. He has drunk the waters of progressive education and popular culture, and has little memory of traditional values and religious beliefs...
...Yale Daily News reports that Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti agreed to trade the Yale Repertory Company to Harvard for Government Professor Samuel P. Huntington, $250,000 in cash, and the Morton Prince House, currently on casters. "Harvard wanted a first-rate drama school, and we were strapped for cash. Huntington was a last-minute throw-in," Giamatti explains...
Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government, last week received the State Department's highest citation, the Distinguished Honor Award; in recognition of his role as principal architect of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy...