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...joint professorships on the theory that knowledge in specific fields is vital to the teaching of teachers. Says Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy, who was dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "Keppel won the respect of his faculty and my snobbish faculty, who tended to scoff at deans of education. He is a man who has grown on every job he's had-and left each a bigger job than it was." In 1962, John Kennedy invited Keppel to take on the Commissioner's job. In their first informal chat, Jack asked: "Weren...
...claimed that his movement had the "express backing" of more than 50,000 Catholics, plus the secret support of 30 bishops and "one of the highest ranking officials" in close contact with Rome-by which he seemed to mean Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Church officials scoff at De Pauw's claim that his movement represents the view of 70% of the nation's Catholics. Every diocesan survey so far shows widespread support for changes in the Mass, which were approved by more than 90% of American bishops. Among them was De Pauw...
Cheaper by the dozen, graphics once were not considered refined enough to be one of the fine arts. With the coming of this century, they were generally a means to make posters, illustrations and other hoi polloi images. Most serious artists would scoff at making them in preference to oils. People did buy "collector's prints," fussily perfect etchings of architecture and landscapes that reflected more a mania for the historic past than for the present scene. But that was no more serious than collecting cut glass. The exploding market for modern art has destroyed that indifference...
...West? In Nine Days, the intellectual and managerial echelons of Soviet society are frankly bourgeois in character. These people look, talk, act, live in all essential respects like middle-class men and women in the nations of the West. They eat in good restaurants, tool around in streamlined automobiles, scoff at the more grandiose pretensions of the Soviet space program, gripe a little at the "administrative fools" who run the labs they work in. And pipe this. The women wear false eyelashes in bed. Karl Marx wrote an awful lot of words. It seems that now by eating them...
...CORRIDA AT SAN FELIU by Paul Scoff. 277 pages. Morrow...