A NOTHER list of academic proscriptions is posted in Germany. /' The list for one recent day included the urbane and cosmojL JL politan Moritz Bonn, well known in America as one of the most interesting of exchange professors} Emil Lederer, a liberal scholar of serene purity of purpose and clarity of thought} Kantorowitz, one of the most distinguished of living historians} Keilsen, an authority on jurisprudence who would adorn any age. Eight more, every one a scholar of note, were included in that list. They are liberals, or they have socialistic leanings, or they are internationalists, or most damaging of all they are Jews. And hundreds of other professors, against whom one or another of these heinous charges may be brought, are looking forward to expulsion from the chairs they have honored and to a precarious and poverty-stricken future. At least, it may be said, they can continue to write books. Freedom of oral instruction is gone; but the most effective means of instruction is after all the book, with the author's philosophy weightily set forth, his facts marshalled in unassailable array. Alas, freedom to write is dependent on freedom to publish, and this freedom too has perished out of Germany. The German scholar may go into exile and write what he pleases, but there has never been sufficient market for his books abroad to justify their publication. So far as the present outlook goes, the free German scholar is done for. Let us entertain no illusions about the superiority of mind to circumstance. Wer tot ist y der ist tot. Such proscription of scholars, unfortunately, is no new and strange phenomenon in our time. The best of the Italian scholars are wandering around the world today, eking out a living as best they can. Russia, too, had distinguished scholars under the old regime whose opinions failed to square with the official doctrine. They are in exile, living in attics on book reviewing or private tutoring, or engaged in some manual occupation which affords scanty bread. There were
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Speaking of coincidences, I also think God has a wonderful sense of humor. Back when I was at Fieldstone I was preaching weekly at a retirement home. It was a short service and the mother of one of my elders also lived there. One day we were finishing singing ”Because He Lives” which the 6 people gathered together (in various stages of dementia) knew by heart. We finished but then miraculously music began to play the refrain out of nowhereso we sang the refrain again together without missing a beat. I was astonished. I said to the director the boom box began playing the tune right at the perfect moment! She said that is more than miraculous because it is not plugged in! I left shaking... and called my elder to tell her about this crazy miracle.
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groups, although crossover from placebo to lenalidomide confounded the ability to assess the effect of the drug on this or on leukemia transformation. Erythroid and cytogenetic responses appeared lower than those seen in the MDS-003 trial despite similar baseline characteristics, as might be expected when moving from the phase 2 to the phase 3 setting, but are still substantial8 (see table). So, is this fourth study of lenalidomide in MDS truly “the charm?” To answer, we turn to the etymology of the phrase, “Third time’s the charm.” A popular interpretation from the 19th century refers to an English law freeing a condemned man after 3 failed attempts at hanging him. Yet, the approximate phrase appears earlier, in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, as stated by the character Falstaff: “Pr’ythee, no more prattling— go. I will hold: this is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death” (Act V, scene 1, lines 1-5). Perhaps for lenalidomide, and more importantly for MDS patients, there is good luck in even numbers, with excellent response rates and hopefully, less chance of death by disease or leukemia, although this remains to be seen. Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The author has served on an advisory board for Celgene. ■
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It can hardly be a coincidence that the historical study of utopias has accelerated as faith in the promises of utopianism has declined. The very idea that utopias, those rose-tinted cities stranded outside time, might have a history is itself a recent discovery, and has largely sprung from assessments of More’s Utopia, the work that revived the ancient genre of the ideal commonwealth for the modern world. More’s work has been heralded as both a harbinger of Communism and as the intellectual first-fruits of the modern bureaucratic state. The corruption and collapse of the one, and the distrust and fear of the other, have made More’s solutions for human depravity seem distant and even actively repugnant in ways that earlier generations of readers could hardly have foreseen. History has reclaimed Utopia and made its vision of a well-regulated present a thing of the past.
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{"title":"On the Summer Issue","authors":"Luke de la Motte","doi":"10.1680/iclq.4.2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/iclq.4.2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44462,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SCHOLAR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81284347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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