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...everywhere intertwined. But what attracts and holds a beginner's interest is substance, not method. The historian Daniel J. Boorstin writes in his introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that it "was the first extensive work of English literature (and history) that I read and reread. It occupied much of my thought during my university years as an undergraduate." Einstein recalls how he fell in love with mathematics: As a boy of 12, he came upon a copy of Euclid's Elements in his uncle's library. It was the theorems, not the proofs (which...
DAVID VAN BIEMA reread the Book of Genesis three times--in three different translations--in preparation for writing this week's cover story. He was impressed not only with the book's importance as "one of the ultimate faith statements in our culture" but also with its power as "the granddaddy of family sagas." The reaction was typical of Van Biema, who is fascinated with how issues of faith affect both the secular and religious communities in America. In this, he was guided by the expertise and reporting of TIME's longtime religion correspondent Richard Ostling. The revival of interest...
...continue to play the middle ground. Either you're going to choose to follow and obey him or reject him." Feeling resentful, Franklin left shortly afterward to assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great amnesty clause, Romans 8: 1: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Then, as Franklin writes, "I put my cigarette out and got down on my knees beside my bed. I was his...The rebel...
...occurred to me then that the massive downsizing and unemployment we are experiencing looks very much like what the textbook described as the short-term effects of a healthy long-term growth in productivity, real wages and standard of living. I rushed to the library to reread The New York Times, in the hope of finding some indication that my line of thought had been considered by some optimistic pundit. Alas, I found nothing but gloom and doom in the articles themselves. But in a sidebar that featured the opinions of various experts in business and economics, I found...
...find inspiration for this first column, I reread our very own Ralph Waldo Emerson on the duties of the "American Scholar." He delivered an address by that name for the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony here at Harvard in 1837. According to Emerson, the responsibility of the academic is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances...