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Owen Kiernan's greeting to the nation's high school leaders echoes the commencement speaker's standard text. What the young "leaders of tomorrow" are never told is what happens when they confront the leaders of today...
Taking as his text Jesus' command "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God, the things that are God's" (Matthew 22: 21), Shils sardonically assigned the role of Caesar to the Federal Government, while arguing that universities have a quasi-religious mission in so far as they pursue truths about nature and man. It would be proper, said Shils, for the two spheres to respect the differences between them. Instead, since World War II, according to Shils, the Government has ignored the universities' traditional function of searching for truth. It has pushed them into...
...Ramon, Calif. He is the author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (Times Books; $8.95), a guide for survival in "the next recession, which will happen some time shortly after the publication of this book," as it states on page 15. Says Ruff, whose tremulous text has gone into its fourth printing and is in fourth place on TIME'S nonfiction bestseller list: "There is cynicism about Government and institutions and an immense searching for someone who looks like he knows where he is going...
...about inventing "a figure, a character in a picture the way novelists have been able to do, like the people you remember out of Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy." There are many openings for gratuitous nostalgia in Kitaj's literary art, and his paintings can be as irritating as any text that drapes its obscurities with belligerent footnotes; they sometimes reduce themselves to promiscuity among famous names. But what gen erally saves Kitaj's work from this failing is his visual flair and range of notation. He has a virtuoso's fist, and can with equal conviction parody...
...grandeur of the Koran is difficult to convey in English translation. Although Islam's Holy Book is considered God's precise word only in Arabic, a generally recognized English text is that of Abdullah Yusuf...