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Eyes on Hanover.(Notes & Comments: April 2007)(Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire)
April 1, 2007... Anyone who cares about the state of higher education in this country should cast a wary eye upon what is happening just now at Dartmouth College. Since the late nineteenth century, the college has turned to its alumni for nearly half of its board of trustees. This is a democratic innovation...
Wise words from Bernard Lewis.(Notes & Comments: April 2007)
April 1, 2007... Last month, the great scholar of Islam Bernard Lewis gave the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lewis's subject was Islam and Europe, and we thought it worth sharing some central bits of his sober assessment. Noting the many troubling signs of...
Talleyrand: the old fraud.(book by Robin Harris entitled "Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France")(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord, has been very well served by biographers. Alfred Duff Cooper's 1932 life of the long-serving French politician and diplomat is an ornament of English letters, and since then four other impressive works have been written on the same subject. Like...
Frost's "Road" & "Woods" redux.(Robert Frost)
April 1, 2007... Much of the recent talk about "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost's famous poem of 1916, centers on whether the speaker's choice of road really makes "all the difference." The going view is not just that is doesn't, but that it couldn't. The poem's diverging roads are worn "about the same,"...
Robert Bridges's new cadence.
April 1, 2007... Robert Bridges (1844-1930) is perhaps the most conspicuous example of that faintly alarming figure, the happy poet. His strenuously archaic diction, his eccentric devotion to syllabic and quantitative measures, his bizarre attempts to simplify English spelling, as well as his unvaryingly...