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Pusey resurrected the Divinity School, recruiting prominent academics like former University Professor Paul Tillich and former Dean of the Divinity School Krister Stendhal, while attracting a $1 million donation to the school from John D. Rockefeller. His close confidant, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy, was an active and influential voice on campus...
Granted, the Republican presidential candidate is no intellectual superstar. One of his favorite books is the children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while Al Gore opts for The Red and the Black, a 19th century page-turner by the French author Henri Stendhal. But let's be honest here--who reads Stendhal, really? (Aside from the Paris-bound Alec Baldwin, perhaps.) The fact is, people of average intelligence often make excellent presidents (Truman, Reagan, even FDR) while brilliant chief executives like Hoover, Nixon, Carter and Clinton tend to trip over their own feet. Intellectual snobbery is all well...
...second novel, The Romantic Movement (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23), the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing writer, now 25, gives us more of the same, presenting himself as a Stendhal of the '90s dating scene. Alice works in an ad agency, Eric in commodities. They meet at a ball, go to trendy London restaurants, take a holiday in Barbados; gradually, obligingly, they settle into their roles like glossy-magazine archetypes in a masque. He's a self-contained realist, she a self-doubting romantic. He won't talk and she won't stop. Their ups and downs are delicately choreographed...
...Havel's mind, brutality, stupidity and kitsch all belonged to the same local gang: dead-drunk communists and evil smells, ghastly heavy velvet drapes and torture. Havel's formula was a variation on Stendhal's rule: "Bad taste leads to crimes...
...their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a political master of our fates should be asked, first of all, not about how he imagines the course of our foreign policy, but about his attitude towards Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoyevski...