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...must admit to being somewhat horrified by Author Philip Wylie's "backpedaling" act as heralded in your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed by the floodlight of logic that shone from his Generation of Vipers . . . one wonders how Wylie can abandon his brothers . . . PAUL W. PYLE Rochester...
This seems rather akin to replacing the present White House with one of simulated clapboard. If the old motley red and orange roof was not especially beautiful, it did have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
There is one excellent argument for Blue Cross which so far seems to have been overlooked. Since it is a consideration closely akin to a pet theory of the hygiene staff, it might well prove a conclusive point: For years the University's staff has been saying that compulsory health insurance under the College's own plan is a necessity because the less affluent students might otherwise pass up care when they need it. But doctors in the area offer a complaint about the present system which is just as hard to answer: many of these same less wealthy...
Both encouragement and warning came from an invited guest. Dr. Hu Shih, 62-year-old ex-diplomat and philosopher, is China's most honored scholar in a civilization which accords scholars a respect akin to reverence. Hu Shih has always refused to join the Kuomintang, has often been regarded as a possible rallying point by intellectuals among the 13 million overseas Chinese who were both anti-Communist and anti-Kuomintang. Hu Shih disowned such disciples. He had come all the way from New York (where he has lived since 1949), he said, because "I feel it a moral obligation...
...over medieval man's passing, he is far more interested in communicating the worth of medieval man-his feeling for spirituality, his sense of social commu nity, his universal values-to his descend ants in modern Europe. For one thing, the medieval "world of Christian culture" is more akin to the present than the humanist traditions that have governed Europe since the Renaissance...