Restless Intellect: ; Learning for Learning's Sake; Book Clubs Quench Thirst for Neglected Liberal Arts Education

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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail

IT'SHARD to imagine this happening 15 or 20 years ago, but there it is in TV Guide black-and-white: The queen of afternoon talk is devoting an entire show to Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," which, as it happens, members of her book club have spent the summer reading.

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Restless Intellect: ; Learning for Learning's Sake; Book Clubs Quench Thirst for Neglected Liberal Arts Education

Whatever happened to "My Teenage Daughter Needs Boot Camp" and "The King of Sex-Change Operations"? Is there a shortage of mothers willing to brand their 16-year-olds as tramps on national TV? Nobody out there handy enough with a scalpel to step up and assume the mantle relinquished by forme...

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