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Urbane, open-minded and endowed with a joshing good humor, Sovern calls himself a subscriber to the "broad approach to liberal arts study," and hopes to build on it. Does that mean imposing some new credo or curriculum on the university? "Wise presidents do not impose," he says, in a lesson on mediation. "They encourage...
...Afghanistan has challenged not only the U.S., but also that portion of the world sharing America's values and aspirations. The problem is not so much one of U.S. strength?the U.S. is strong indeed?but of applying this strength in ways that make us seem effective, seem wise, and seem responsible leaders of the free world...
...oppose ratification of SALT II because of the events in Afghanistan is to invite further Soviet aggression by telling the Soviet Union that heightened military competition is what the United States wants. To delay the arms limitation debate in the current sabre-rattling climate may be a wise tactical move for Carter; but SALT and the years of negotiation it represents are still the best hope for world peace. Dumping the treaty now would neither hurt the Soviets nor further U.S. interests...
...find it difficult to imagine, for instance, that a contemporary American college student faced with some major personal tragedy would think of turning for consolation to the Book of Job. Or that he would look for philosophical detatchment from the vicissitudes of daily life on the wise pages of Montaigne. Or seek to understand nature through the verses of a Romantic poet...
Murmur of the Heart (1971). Louis Malle's comedy about incest in a middle-class French family is sexy and unfailingly wise...