Education: Man about the World

Officially the new course was called tories," "Military but all that Government of anyone at Occupied North Terri western needed to know was that William Montgomery McGovern, a sensible wild man, was teaching it.

McGovern is apt to explain Kant in terms of Buicks and boogie-woogie, and fall back frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country....

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