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...teach the art to all ranks. To educate the military about its impact on society, he has designed new U.S.A.F.I. courses that relate military and civilian technology back to 1750. To teach soldiers "what society thinks of them," he set up another course on 19 war novels, from Stendhal's The Red and the Black to Jules Remains' Verdun. "You sure are educating us," says one of his majors, who has read six of the novels...
Absent are Sophocles, Cervantes, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal-all of them beloved by educated men. The few foreign works include De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa...
...Stendhal called on the apostle, St. Paul, for a definition of a "reasonable service" to mankind. "Prestige is for those who have too little to do," Stendhal said. "There are no menial tasks and no prestige jobs for him who uses his gifts instead of framing his diploma on a wall...
...Stendhal said that one must discover the will of God to achieve "this 'reasonable service,'" but that this is a little more complicated than abiding by the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule...
...Instead, Stendhal continued, the process of renewing our minds in a changing world is an "ever on-going" transformation. "Few consider," he said, "the type of faith which achieves this renewal. This is a creative, unpredictable adventure...