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Both movements have turned philosophy into a private game for professionals. Laymen glancing at the June 10, 1965, issue of the Journal of Philosophy will find a brace of learned analysts discussing whether the sentence "There are brown things and there are cows" is best expressed by the formula (3x)Exw (3x)Exy or by (3x)Bx-(3x)Cx. And while the existentialists speak dramatically enough about the condition of man in novels and plays, their philosophical writing is so dense that Brandeis' Henry Aiken complains: "Reading Heidegger is like trying to swim through wet sand." One typical passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...innocent of Malcolm's death," he said. "Malcolm died of his own preaching. He preached violence, and violence took him away." Despite Elijah's protestations of Black Muslim innocence, New York police arrested and charged with Malcolm's murder a Negro named Norman 3X Butler, described as a Black Muslim enforcer. When arrested, Norman 3X was free on $10,000 bail in the nonfatal January shooting in New York of another Black Muslim defector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Death and Transfiguration | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...would lose no cities. If it took us a day, the U.S. might have X numbers of bombs dropped on it. If it took us a week, the U.S. might have 2X bombs dropped on it. And if it took us a month, the U.S. might have 3X bombs dropped on it. In this case we might defeat the enemy, but it would be a tragically hollow victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Air Force: rQUALIFIED 'YES | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...3x...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Shot of Oxygen | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Mary was 3% years old and Ann was ix, showing a difference of 2X years in their ages. Therefore, when Mary was 5x and Ann 3x, their combined age amounted to 44 years. Dividing 44, which equals 8x, by 8, we find that x equals 5½ years, which shows Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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