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...really immaterial . . . but . . . it was I who brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia . . . It was I also who saved from murder, by the Nihilist Klopman, Count von und zu Grafenstein...
...column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...
...very broad sense to include all kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
Books lovers. It had obviously become-in the words of the University of Chicago philosopher, Professor Mortimer J. Adler -"the cultural center of the. West." To spread the tidings, persuasive Lynn Williams persuaded Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to proclaim a Great Books Week. Kennelly agreed: "I think Chicago should be known as something besides the 'hog butcher for the world...
About 750 people filed into a Chicago auditorium last week to hear Lynn Williams read the mayor's proclamation. Then Adler recited an 8,000-word catechism for Great Books readers, designed to help them defend the faith against attacks from unbelievers. The gist: "We don't claim we're going to cure the world, or cure flat feet. We do say we're going to do something for the mind...