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...nearly 400 pages, The Great American Novel is part of the same line. Ostensibly a baseball epic of the 1943 Ruppert Mundys, the book is to contemporary fiction what silicone injections are to topless dancing. It is an extravagant mockery of form, a freak show aggressively thrust at the public. "Read me big boy till I faint," Roth seems to be saying, in a paraphrasing of Portnoy's burlesque-queen fantasy. He seems to have cleaned his desk drawers of every party bit and wild turn. He has also researched his subject, spending hours at the baseball Hall...
...been amazingly naive in trusting his aides' protestations of innocence?despite repeated evidence in news reports to the contrary?or he had been a willing party to their deception. Either way, he could not escape heavy responsibility. Despite his plans for returning "power to the people," a major thrust of his Administration has been to centralize the vast responsibilities of the Executive Branch to an unprecedented degree into the hands of a relatively small circle of these overly trusted White House aides...
Under the stubborn prodding of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus' other intellectual heirs, questions of nature were thrust directly into the combative, public arena of empirical inquiry. For the first time, experiments became crucial. Theories were supported by close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand...
...Hill, Ervin passed the North Carolina bar examination. But he decided that he needed more training and entered Harvard Law School as an advanced, third-year student. After earning his degree ('22), he then began an unusual career in which he never reached for opportunities but had them thrust upon him. While he was still at Harvard, some friends, without his knowledge, nominated him as a Democratic candidate for the North Carolina legislature. Although eager to begin his law practice, he grudgingly accepted and, to his surprise, won in his Republican district. Ervin's talent for the deft...
Marcus must have caught the President's address in Houston the previous night to come up with that judgment. In fact, the thrust of Bok's remarks was that in the face of new technology in society and demands for relevance in American education, colleges and universities must not lose sight of the pursuit of "pure knowledge...