Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is what I mistakenly thought academic life would be like when I decided to be a teacher," says John Agresto, 33. "We'd say profound things. I thought in my innocence we'd debate the great issues. Here, we actually...
...what is a liberal arts scholar good for? The question, of course, has not been answered, unless it counts to discover that such questions can have no final answers. Plato's Symposium ends with a vision of Socrates standing fixed in thought from early dawn until noon, until sunset, until early dawn of the following day. The image may seem comic at first, but it be comes moving and finally majestic, even though nobody ever learns what Socrates was thinking. Plato gave the only explanation necessary. The unexamined life, he said, is not worth living. Meanwhile, back...
...double doors of Kennedy Airport's international arrivals terminal, the cries of recognition burst forth. Bouquets of flowers were crushed as those waiting embraced the new arrivals. "We are so, so happy to be here," a balding man from the Ukraine sobbed, as he hugged the sister he thought he would never see again. He was one of 600 Soviet Jews arriving last week on four flights of refugees let loose by Moscow's easing emigration policy. Said a young engineer from Kiev: "I tried so long to leave and wanted so much to come here...
...ever more diverse and complex, the U.S. cannot achieve its diplomatic goals simply by asserting its military or economic power. Rather, it must seek ways to adapt to and guide revolutionary changes that are probably unstoppable. Said Vance: "There can be no going back to a time when we thought there could be American solutions to every problem." The U.S., he counseled, "must accept the fact that other societies will manage change and build new institutions in patterns that may be different from our own [an obvious allusion to Iran] . . . Our national interest is not in [all countries] becoming like...
...campaigned, Bush stressed his broad experience in government. In Boston, he pursued the youth vote very nearly to the cradle: "I want to restore the stars in third-graders' eyes." But he failed to stir his audiences with speeches that contained more thought than passion and were carefully qualified. Compared with either Connally or Reagan, Bush is unexciting on the stump, a serious handicap for any long shot...