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...Private Sphere. The visit was not simply a round of formal fun. The Iranian embassy billed it as a demonstration of "the importance of Iran's role as a source of power and stability in the Middle East." The Shah talked at length with Ford and Kissinger on how to restore momentum to the next round of Middle East talks, tentatively set for Geneva this summer. As chief of state of the Persian Gulfs emerging superpower, the Shah came shopping for more military hardware, including the F-16 fighter jet and Air Force planes equipped with a new airborne...
...study of history has its equivalent of Dupin the relaxed thinker puffing on his meerschaum, scoffing at the scurrying police as they collect their clues. Worried because "the nineteenth-century pre-eminence of history in the sphere of intellect no longer obtains," intellectual and musical historian Jacques Barzun (University Professor at Columbia, author of Darwin, Marx. Wagner) has undertaken to incite resistance to modern modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense...
...review the lists of candidates, I have been asked to vote for since my graduation from Harvard in 1967, I cannot escape the impression of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of middle-aged persons, excessively burdened by a multitude of public offices, but always within a limited sphere of issues. Almost always they sit a Governing-Board-level and therefore for removed from the arena where the action is and where the ferment for change in our society manifests itself with a sense of urgency that seldom filters up till it erupts in bitter explosions...
Thirty years after World War II, "the greater co-prosperity sphere" in Asia-once the aim of an aggressive Japanese empire-has been achieved by Japan Inc., a vast army of devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...
...Corporal Teilhard, the war was a "baptism in reality." The theological musings in the diary amount to a rough draft of The Divine Milieu, the 1926-27 treatise (finally published in 1957) in which Teilhard formally set out his view of God as a "center" who "fills the whole sphere" of creation. Despite his disclaimers, the church found this idea dangerously akin to pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are identical. A comment on the last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take...