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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...
...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
...social psychologist, I was impressed with Adler's selection of the 102 Great Ideas. How does he logically exclude the idea of "Humility"? Perhaps this is an idea too foreign to such a great and noble mind...
...Humility, which is included in the index-to the Great Ideas, is, according to Dr. Adler, "a virtue attached to Christian charity...