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Now Adler is planning an equally weighty continuation of that shelf: a 20-volume series entitled, not surprisingly, "Great Books of the 20th Century." Writing to the series' editorial board-including such luminaries as Norman Cousins and Jacques Barzun-Adler asked which modern authors might be worthy of the...
THE MIND of the playwright is not unlike that of the master criminal. Before acting, each must construct a well-conceived, meticulous plan, tightly bound together, without any loose ends. In the case of Softly Stealing, the new Kirkland House musical, the mastermind is that of Tom Fuller '74 of...
The Kremlin had been startled and angered by a series of sharp Carter Administration criticisms of Soviet and Czechoslovak treatment of dissidents. The State Department warned Moscow that continual harassment of Andrei Sakharov conflicted with "accepted international standards of human rights." This was followed by a more moderate statement of...
Of course the potential for such as idealist life (I use idealistic both in the sense of "positive" and "ideal-based") could only have flourished with the encouragement of both an understanding family and a social and historical framework that made Weil's ideas and then actions--the constant testing...
The Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the...