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Jimmy Carter's Bible rests on his desk in the Oval Office with a mark to the verse from Micah used in his Inaugural Address, in which the Hebrew sage admonishes the Lord's people "to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God." These days, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also keeps a Bible close by in his seventh-floor State Department office-next to a book that discusses Israeli borders and a map of the Middle East...
Luckily, though, some do. Roger Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns...
...More sage criticism focuses on three main points...
That parlor question has been troubling Philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler, 75, partly because the sage of Aspen has an incurable passion for arranging ideas into categories, partly because this is the 25th anniversary of his proclamation, with the help of Robert Hutchins, of the "Great Books of the Western World." To organize that 5-ft. 1-in. shelf, Adler bestowed the title of greatness on 443 works by 74 authors, but denied it to anyone after Freud and William James...
...yules New Yorker Writer Frank Sullivan saluted friends and celebrities in a full-page poem, nutmegged with his gentle wit and redolent rhymes. The poem failed to appear last year; the sage of Saratoga Springs was too ill to write it. Then, last winter, Sullivan died at the age of 83. But this week's New Yorker does not leave the "season all unbarded and countless friends un-Christmas-carded." The humorist's former editor, noted Parodist Roger Angell, 56, has raised a toast in the master's distinctive style...