CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
The Polish Road to Socialism
WARSAW, June 22-Poland's Minister of Higher Education
said today that the Government was preparing to weed out
political malcontents and the academically unfit among uni–
versity teachers.
The minister made clear that the pi ocess would also be used
to check on the "ethical, moral and sociopolitical attitudes of
faculty members," and that these had to accord with the spirit
of Poland's Constitution. "It is difficult to allow someone to
teach under a socialist system if they are against it," he said .
Out of the Mainstream
New York Times
June 23, 1982
The provincialism of his Oxford past haunts [Isaiah
1
Berlin's
oeuvre; he seems immune to the critical events of the 20th
century-even the Russian revolution.... Though his
memoirs speak of the recently deceased, Berlin seems not to
have been troubled by developments in the twentieth century
culture: expressionism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, existen–
tialism, neo-Marxism or structuralism. Nor has he been
affected by Brecht, Proust, Benjamin, Joyce, Kandinsky,
Sartre or Kafka.
RussellJacoby, "Isaiah Berlin-With The
Current,"
Salmagundi,
No. 55 Winter 1982
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