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...Unlike the lower animals, which live only in the present moment, man is conscious of time, and thus of death. Stoicism and Epicureanism-faiths for the Greco-Roman intellectual elite-accepted death as the final end to life with equanimity. But man generally has rebelled against this kind of blunt pragmatism, instinctively seeking "some state in which he will be secure from the everlasting menace of time's destructive logic." Brandon tacitly admits that he has some trouble juggling his Christian faith and his academic findings. "My findings as a professor lead me to recognize certain things," he says...
Harry S. Stonehill resembles the kind of character that the late Sydney Greenstreet used to play in all the old Warner Bros, beaded-curtain thrillers. A blunt, beefy Chicagoan who changed his name from Steinberg in 1942 because "German names at that time weren't very popular," Stonehill built up a $50 million business empire in the Philippines. "Every man has his price," said Harry Stonehill, and in the Philippines after World War II he found that the going rate was fairly cheap; at one time he boasted: "I am the government...
Three years after his death at the age of 76, the will of Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey was probated in Manhattan surrogate court. The blunt, baseball-capped naval hero of World War II, who retired in 1947 to become an International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. executive and a successful dealer in surplus Navy oil tankers, left a bull-sized estate totaling...
...family's building business from hod carrier to director, is a fellow of All Souls, Oxford (and married to an American, Hellen Guggenheimer). Macmillan emphasized the government's aim to expand Britain's health services by bringing into his Cabinet Health Minister Enoch Powell, 49, a blunt, brilliant scholar and poet who was a full professor of Greek at 24, a wartime brigadier...
...owner of first the Cleveland Indians, then the Browns and finally the Chicago White Sox, William Louis Veeck Jr. gave big league baseball its dizziest merry-go-round ride. Now he chronicles his turbulent career in Veeck-as in Wreck (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $4.95), a brash, blunt autobiography that is certain-like everything else he has done-to tickle fans and raise his fellow owners' hackles...