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...Theology and Jazz" [Sept. 5]: the Rev. Lawrence McMaster longs for the magnetism of jazz to fill our churches . . . But the danger of expressing religion through jazz is extreme because thereby religious emotion is emphasized to the total exclusion of religious intellect...
Will Achilles ever catch up with that slow but steady tortoise? Some of the early Greeks said no, and Professor Havelock, lecturing in "Greek 170a" on "The Growth of the Greek Intellect from Thales to Plato," will explain how they reached this and other conclusions. Fraternity types should feel right at home in Sever 26, what with all the Greek Gods running around...
...enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge me from my books to be a downright universal intellect, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. What a tragic illusion...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
This is the place to which this tormented, restless man of intellect and of action has come in his quest through the godless pantheon of the Enlightenment. To André Malraux, man's hope, often betrayed, always risen again, is still in man. It is a gallant position, but perilously exposed, and Malraux seems to know it. "The next century's task will be." says Malraux, "to rediscover its gods...