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That parlor question has been troubling Philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler, 75, partly because the sage of Aspen has an incurable passion for arranging ideas into categories, partly because this is the 25th anniversary of his proclamation, with the help of Robert Hutchins, of the "Great Books of the Western World." To organize that 5-ft. 1-in. shelf, Adler bestowed the title of greatness on 443 works by 74 authors, but denied it to anyone after Freud and William James...
...Adler is planning an equally weighty continuation of that shelf: a 20-volume series entitled, not surprisingly, "Great Books of the 20th Century." Writing to the series' editorial board-including such luminaries as Norman Cousins and Jacques Barzun-Adler asked which modern authors might be worthy of the company of Homer, Galileo and Marx. He added: "I am willing to stick my neck out by nominating the authors and works from which a selection should be made...
...Cusumano (134 lbs.) dueled to a draw with his opponent before Brian Adler (142 lbs.) gave UMass' best grappler a tough fight before bowing...
Coach Lee, correctly anticipating the sad state of the Bruin wrestlers, inserted five members of the Crimson J.V. squad (Jim Kaller, George Letsui, Brian Adler, Doug Mason, and Craig Beling,) into his line-up of bear-baiters...
Letsui (134 lbs.) made it three in a row for the Crimson with a 10-5 decision but Adler's 6-3 loss to Brown's Ben Levine (142 lbs.) brought the Crimson win streak...