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Recent events at the University of Massachusetts have proven him a valuable prophet. The decision at UMass last week to hire Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis and two other radical economists, leaves Harvard with only one lonely radical economist, who is skeptical of what one pioneer can do on a deserted frontier...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: A Peepshow of the Economics Department | 4/10/1973 | See Source »

...still learning basics." Actually, Bocuse and his mentor, the late Fernand Point, were shaking the tradition of Escoffier, who personified the elaborate approach that many foreigners think of as being the whole of French cooking. Says Jean Didier of the Guide Kleber: "If Point was God, Bocuse is his prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Simple Lion | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...French philosopher René Descartes. A religious man, but also a rationalist, Descartes contended that man could demonstrate truth only about a world he could measure. The world of spirit was beyond such measurement, a matter of faith and intuition, not truth. Descartes became a self-fulfilling prophet. The spiritual world was left to philosophers and divines, many of whom shared the Cartesian bias that theirs was an ephemeral discipline. The physical world became the domain of Western science, though man sometimes seemed less the master of that world than its mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Second Thoughts About Man | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...parts to grow naturally with on another. The best in Brock Patrick Walsh, a strong young David, whose fine singing adds much to his role. Paul Fitzgerald achieves a good sense of comraderie as his friend Nathan, and Michael Brewer possesses all the gruffness, wisdom and maturity of a prophet...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Revenge and Mercy | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

Wesley spoke glowingly of Du Bois, one of the first blacks to attend Harvard, calling him a "major prophet," a "Harvard scholar in every sense," and the "originator of black power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Scholar Lauds Du Bois, Calls for Center in His Honor | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

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