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...even that is now changing in Washington. One after another of these foreign policy specialists last week in private asked the question: How much of the current diplomatic neurosis, and the U.S.-Soviet hostility that lies at its core, has been brought about by Jimmy Carter's singular view of how to improve the world and his fellow...
...President reaches the White House without some knowledge of history, some sense of his own destiny. They all are, after all, the products of some special historic force, Carter perhaps more than any other President since Franklin Roosevelt. Once on the job, every one of them feels a singular kinship with the past. Their interest in the men who have marched before them deepens. They search for new meaning in the successes of their predecessors, seek solace in the frailties. They join the processions of history...
...yard of my family's home in Greenfield, Iowa, this summer is an extraordinary clarifier. Down the line of porches the past echoes. There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft...
Since the Fall it has been one rude truth after another. Copernicus elbowed us from celestial stage-center with his observation that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin opened the closet of evolution to introduce family skeletons that further questioned our singular divinity. Under the damp side of civilized behavior, Freud found the perpetually rutting...
...Educationwill undoubtedly mislead many readers. The book is not an account of Pusey's years as college president. Despite the addendum, "A Personal Report," his writing remains determinedly impersonal. Neither a sense of Pusey's personality nor of his role at Lawrence or Harvard ever emerges--the first person singular intrudes less than half a dozen times in the course of the book. Harvard is often cited but only as a model for certain national trends in education and a convenient source for statistics...