Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosopher Mortimer Adler consistently admitted that the idea was "a sort of megalomania with me": he had long wanted to set up a staff of scholars whose one job would be to discuss and analyze the main issues in the thinking of Western Man. Last week, as he resigned his post as professor of philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, Adler, 49, announced that he was going to San Francisco to head a new Institute for Philosophical Research-the first of its kind in the world...
Mortimer J. Adler, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Chicago LL.D...
George London: Dramatic Scenes from Russian and French Operas (with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, conducted by Kurt Adler and Jean Morel; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Up & coming George London uses his darkly magnificent bass-baritone to best advantage in the melodramatic scene from Prince Igor, sits rather heavily on the more lyrical ones. Other operas (all little known) from which London sings selections: Rubinstein's The Demon, Paladilhe's Patrie, Massenet's Don Quichotte...
Straus North yesterday trounced Thayer North, 23 to 4, in American League softball. Batterymates Wally Bregman, batting in seven runs with three for four, including a home run, and right-hander Marty Adler led the onslaught...
...avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print 30,000 copies of its first issue...