Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Phil. 9 we come to another Hocking course, which as always means brilliant lectures, but ones difficult to follow. The course is again a personal interpretation of metaphysics, and should be taken as such: don't take it as a review on general Metaphysics...
...there are many outside institutions such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, the Botanical Museum and the Harvard forest connected with the department. The Biology Laboratory has excellent facilities, and there is a very thorough library. Lastly the faculty is large and brilliant...
Last week British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew from Egypt to Turkey, where he had been hailed by the press as "that brilliant man who read Persian poetry at the age of 17-something we Turks cannot even do." With him was General Sir John Greer Dill, Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and presently British Ambassador to Russia Sir Stafford Cripps arrived by plane from Moscow...
...most adult living playwrights and his new seriocomedy tackles a grown-up theme-the fact that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged to a poetess (Ina Claire) she leads...
Sometimes Rauschning's voice sounds like that of a prophet, sometimes like that of a clever Junker. He has little use for forces which most people are used to calling progressive. In a brilliant chapter, The Unseen Revolution, he lights up a paradox: "The true forces of reaction are not to be found . . . in the cliques of a privileged class. . . ." Far more reactionary are the doctrinaires who, in the name of economic security for the masses, have promoted "the idea of rational planning, which has come from the world of technology, where it belongs, to intrude on political...