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Ervine's view is both more intimate and more level than that of earlier Shavian biographers, who usually presented him as a fabulous monster. Ervine is able to discuss his immense shyness, to chide him when necessary for the "tosh" that often came from his "spinsterly mind," to assert, against all previous evidence, that he was generous in money matters, and to dispose of Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor's assertion that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with...
...dangerous retrogression in Indian politics. In Gandhi's day, soul force and fasting were directed against an alien government. Today India's mobs are using soul force (and physical force) in an attempt to overturn decisions of their own Parliament, and Indian leaders who fast to assert their power are countering with another perversion of Gandhi's legacy...
...Kierkegaard, the book argued the toss between faith and reason in a way that could not fail to cause offense to the Spanish hierarchy. In Unamuno's picture of man, man's worst friend was his dogma. He argued: flesh-and-blood man must assert his identity in the face of death. This seemed to leave God out of the picture, so in 1914, with an assist from a touchy government, he was forced out of his rectorship...
Rising production and material betterment are not the primary goals of Socialism, argue the new theorists. "Socialism," they assert, echoing a saying dear to Hugh Gaitskell, "is about equality" and equality is a state "in which people, no longer divided by barriers of privilege, can be conscious of their common humanity." Apparently content with this vague definition of Socialism's goal, the theorists never bother to define equality at all but concentrate instead on denouncing what they consider the two chief causes of inequality in Britain-unequal educational advantages and unequal distribution of wealth. Towards Equality makes a routine...
Washington's most notable contribution to intellectual history was his advocacy of industrial education. To be sure,the emphasis that he placed on it permitted many Americans to assert that he opposed liberal arts and professional education for Negroes. For example, President Taft, one of Washington's strongest supporters, advised students of a Negro college in 1909: "Your race is adapted to be a race of farmers, first, last and for all times." While the controversy still continues about Washington's educational philosophy, most Negroes today recognize the need for industrial training for many Negroes. Moreover, Southern white states valued...