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Question: In what age group does a 73-year-old conservative President seeking re-election find his widest support...
...this matter are not casual; they involve the essential purposes of the University and the terms on which it exists and does its work in our society. Universities have the distinctive mission of promoting discovery, new ideas, understanding, and education. These activities depend on experimentation, self-expression, and the widest opportunity for debate and dissent. They require insulation form outside pressures that, would impose an orthodoxy of "safe" ideas or use the University for ends other than learning and the pursuit of truth. In this respect, the university is quite unlike other institutions, such as governmental bodies, which are designed...
...County is 4,083 sq. mi., or 800 sq. mi. larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If it were a state, it would be the eighth largest in population (7.9 million-behind Michigan, but ahead of New Jersey), not including California. The city measures 30 miles at its widest, 44 miles at its longest. It is roughly 465 sq. mi., and when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards, stop lights and, along your flanks, oil pumps...
With close to 9,000 subscribers, including universities and law firms around the globe, the Review has the widest circulation of any university review, Foreign air mail subscriptions cost $150 where domestic subscribers...
Boorstin feels strongly that the scholar has an ethical obligation to publish his work and to write for the widest possible audience. He has done both. His many historical books are written to intrigue the citizen as well as the student; they have succeeded, and his Pulitzer Prize is well-merited. Boorstin's faith in the printed word led him to rise at six every morning to write, while holding a more than fulltime job as Librarian of Congress. When The Discoverers quotes Samuel Johnson about writing his dictionary, it could well be referring to its own author; he worked...