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During a visit to the University of Chicago in 1934, Gertrude Stein landed in a steamy after-dinner debate with Philosopher Mortimer Adler about the merits of teaching literature in translation. Stein was firmly against it, and Adler defended the proposition fiercely. Suddenly she rose from her chair, marched over to Adler, and rapped him on the head. Said Stein: "I can see that you are the kind of young man who is accustomed to winning arguments...
That he is. Last week Mortimer Adler, now a jaunty 74, author of 26 books, progenitor of the Great Books of the Western World and of the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was relishing another intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston, who had been invited to debate Adler on his own turf-the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Moderated by Bill Moyers and billed as a medieval-style "public disputation" on the future of democracy, the affair celebrated the 25th anniversary of Adler's Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research...
...Thirteen correspondents in seven bureaus worked on the story, along with Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison and Edward Adler. They interviewed youths and their victims, police and judges, sociologists and social workers. The young offenders were often happy to discuss their records; one youngster even posed for photos. The juvenile court justices, wary of confidentiality statutes, were more reluctant, but finally let some of our correspondents visit their courtrooms...
...Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms...
...didn't know how to swim. I was very poor on the parallel bars, and my phys.-ed. class came at the damn wrong hour." The reluctant athlete is Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 74, whose aversion to compulsory exercise cost him a B.A. degree from Columbia even though he completed the rest of the curriculum in three years and ranked first in his class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that...