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...very odd coincidence, summed up in the motto of our University: Veritas. The trouble is that no one quite knows what truth is, but we do know some of the things that are necessary if we are to search for it. One of these things is that the searcher must be unprejudiced and well-informed; another is that he must feel secure in expressing his opinions no matter what the opinions of anybody else or even everybody else. One main purpose of the University is to be a place where such people may ponder, study, and express their findings...
Just about everyone who worked on the stories in New York brought to them a personal understanding. As a university student in West Germany shortly after World War II, Tinnin watched the growing isolation of the citizens of East Germany. Muson studied Marxism at Harvard. Re searcher Mary McConachie, considered something of a Czechoslovakia specialist for THE WORLD section, polished her command of the Czech lan guage while working as press secretary in Prague for the British Foreign Service from 1957 to 1959. She remembers the sadness of a gracious people afraid to be caught talking to a Westerner. "They...
...Borges, the universe is, as he said at a reading of his poetry in December, "an unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." Borges sees himself, the artist, not as a searcher for the exit to the labyrinth but as a man lost along with everyone else, who can perceive and can convey to his fellows flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The essence of the lectures--especially the two most recent--is the expansion of such insights...
...Chet Bowles (John Kennedy's chief talent searcher) offered me two jobs in 1961, Ambassador to Japan or Under Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs," he explained. "I turned down the second without a moment's hesitation. As Under-Secretary, I would have been doing nothing in depth -- just fighting hundreds of brushfires...
Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., former nun, president of Webster College. Articulate and courageous innovator, perceptive teacher, wise counselor in the highest national cabinets, co-searcher in the cause of open-ended truth, you confirm the future of liberal learning...