The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College EducationA perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the centre of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of a brilliant observer who documents fifty years of Soviet literary activity and the personal predicament of the writer under a totalitarian regime. |
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... activity of free thought or speech , since people live in such a high state of mutual agreement . With such ... activities soliciting your interest and involvement . You must take courses , it's true , but something like 1,800 courses ...
... activity of free thought or speech , since people live in such a high state of mutual agreement . With such ... activities soliciting your interest and involvement . You must take courses , it's true , but something like 1,800 courses ...
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... activity of questioning and testing , but to do so it has to strive to keep itself a place of systematically opened minds : a place where nothing is so true that it can't be challenged , and nothing so far out that it can't be ...
... activity of questioning and testing , but to do so it has to strive to keep itself a place of systematically opened minds : a place where nothing is so true that it can't be challenged , and nothing so far out that it can't be ...
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... activities you've never before engaged in you ought to sign up for , and the other joys of new arrival . On our side , this ceremony gives us a chance to see your class drawn up in regi- mental formation — an impressive spectacle - and ...
... activities you've never before engaged in you ought to sign up for , and the other joys of new arrival . On our side , this ceremony gives us a chance to see your class drawn up in regi- mental formation — an impressive spectacle - and ...
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... activity where truth is struggled toward, not thought of as finally achieved, you might be about to study the phlogiston theory of matter.) People sometimes consider my own field as a preserve of timeless texts embodying the sum of ...
... activity where truth is struggled toward, not thought of as finally achieved, you might be about to study the phlogiston theory of matter.) People sometimes consider my own field as a preserve of timeless texts embodying the sum of ...
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... activity , bring some large measure of energy , imagination , and reflectiveness to the collective enterprise ; people who improve the liveliness and thoughtfulness of the collective conversation . Am I the only one who thinks that the ...
... activity , bring some large measure of energy , imagination , and reflectiveness to the collective enterprise ; people who improve the liveliness and thoughtfulness of the collective conversation . Am I the only one who thinks that the ...
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The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education Richard H. Brodhead Limited preview - 2004 |
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