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...life. Last week, after three years in which its lifeline went largely unchallenged, West Berlin was once more threatened by an attempt to limit its contact with the West. East Germany announced that it would not allow members of West Germany's rightist National Democratic Party, or other "neo-Nazis," to travel through East Germany to Berlin...
Started in response to student protests about the impersonality of the multiversity, the Tussman program took 150 freshmen volunteers and isolated them from the rest of the school for two years in a neo-Tudor-style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton...
Schleiermacher fell into theological disfavor after World War I, largely because of the neo-Orthodox revolt against religious liberalism led by Switzerland's Karl Barth. In Barth's view, Schleiermacher had turned theology into anthropology by starting with man's experience rather than the divine imperative of the Bible and God's objective revelation in Christ. Not all thinkers who followed in Barth's wake agreed. The late Paul Tillich argued for the existence of God as an inwardly felt "ground of being," and readily acknowledged his debt to Schleiermacher...
...White House Secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, Loeb lives a long way from his newspaper office, in a neo-Tudor mansion on a 90-acre estate in Prides Crossing, Mass. He is well liked by his employes, was one of the first U.S. publishers to establish a profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the Union Leader does a commendable job of reporting state politics and carries as much national and international news as most papers its size. But all too often news stories turn out to be only slightly disguised Loeb opinions. ASKS U.S. BELLY CRAWL bawled the banner headline over...
...involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem ma imposed by the Viet Nam war on many American liberals: self-exiled from Lyndon Johnson's Democratic Party, they are forced to array their antiwar consciences in the same ranks as Communists, New Leftists and giddy, neo-anarchic hippies...