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Seventh, the wind of freedom blows across national and cultural boundaries, it does not stop at them. Hutten, like many of his humanist friends, claimed the freedom to engage in fruitful contacts with whomsoever and wheresoever. His world was limited to Europe; ours comprises all continents. The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has recently stressed that we are experiencing the formation of a world system of cultures, “a Culture of cultures,” whose spaces are characterized by both differentiation and assimilation.
Also in 1991, the university took severe beatings in the media and in hearings on indirect costs before a congressional subcommittee headed by Representative John Dingell. On July 29, 1991, President Kennedy announced that he would step down. In his statement he said: “At present we are talking too much about our problems and too little about our opportunities. . It is very difficult, I have concluded, for a person identified with a problem to be the spokesman for its solution. ” I spent much of the summer of 1992 researching, drafting, writing, and rewriting my inaugural address.
Since there is so little time for reflection, reading, or discussion, one has to start out with considerable intellectual capital that one can subsequently draw upon. I use this metaphor advisedly because there were times when I felt I did not have a single penny left in the bank. 6. Scholar in university ser vice. ” I strongly believe that the fashionable inclination to stress managerial business skills in lieu of a university president’s academic background is, most of the time, ill advised. The former are clearly needed, but the latter is also indispensable.
