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N.Y.U.'s intellectual stew
Wiener, Jon | September 30, 1996 issue

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The Institute for the Humanities at New York University, hosted a lunch where 104 fellows, selected from New York's intellectual elite, listened to a talk and discussed issues of the day with N.Y.U. faculty. Everybody got something out of it: The faculty got to spend a few hours with some of New York's leading thinkers, from Susan Sontag to Alfred Kazin to Robert Silvers of the "The New York Review of Books; independent writers gained benefits of a tie to a major university-office space and a library and a place to meet and N.Y.U could claim that hosting Sontag and colleagues showed that the school really was a world-class academic institution rather than a downtown real estate enterprise.

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INTELLECTUALS; ELITE (Social sciences); UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Faculty; SONTAG, Susan; NEW York University (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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