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Glenn W. Boynton, associate dean for finance and development at the Divinity School, says that the area of education in quantitative skills is one in which he "might disagree" with Stendahl. Boynton says that the Div School "ought not to try to reinvent capabilities that exist elsewhere in the University." Boynton says that he is not sure how the school could adapt these capabilities to meet its needs, adding that he agrees with Stendahl that the tools of analysis are useful to students in the Master of Divinity program...
...will of some supreme £ creative being, or evolved spontaneously, says Jastrow, the choice either way is "an act of faith." Even among highly secular folk there is a general disposition to assume, as never before, that if God does not exist it may be necessary for man to reinvent...
...physicist but a journalist, one of the very best now writing, who specializes in the long, reportorial essay. He has written books about such things as oranges, tennis, ecology, an unlikely tract of New Jersey outback called the Pine Barrens and a group of men who tried to reinvent the zeppelin. Like all journalists dealing with science, McPhee is tethered by limitations in his readers' knowledge and imagination...
...required view of Dubuffet is that of the artist as noble savage. In the words of the French critic Georges Limbour, he is driven by "a dedication to total liberty from all rules and conventions of representation" to "reject all previous knowledge-in short, to reinvent his art and his methods for every new production." Ostensibly, Dubuffet would like to escape European psychology and history. The past oppresses him. Originality means innocence. Yet his paintings are undeniably full of rules, conventions and accepted signs taken over from other art forms. The shorthand of child drawing-the wavy contours and schematic...
...managing editor of Harpers magazine, and is currently a director of New York's Channel 13. In Somewhere Else, Kotlowitz's imagination fetches back through Jewish generations not only to find the bloodnests and tangles of family life in 19th century Poland and Edwardian England but to reinvent the precise gestures and textures and words and smells of those times. That of course is what any historical novelist tries to do-a kind of retrospective new journalism. But Kotlowitz's premise is more complicated. His novel seems an act of familial, almost racial piety...