Word: buber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they find when they look at all this for the first time is, I suggest, at least something to think about, and finally something to decide about, one way or another...
...same year, Taubes became a close friend of Paul Tillich, with whom he studied, and of Yale's famed philosopher, Paul Weiss Martin Buber secured him a position as Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal...
Russia and Communism were getting to be known quantities instead of bogeymen. Edward Crankshaw's Cracks in the Kremlin Wall expressed one expert's judgment that Russia is feebler than supposed. Other careful books exposed Communism in practice. Margarete Buber (Under Two Dictators), Elinor Lipper (Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps), Zbigniew Stypulkowski (Invitation to Moscow) and Gustav Herling (^4 World Apart) were all graduates of Soviet prisons, and wrote of their experiences with skill. The reissue of French Traveler Astolphe de Custine's book of a century ago, Journey for Our Time, reminded moderns that, then...
Nell Pratt, a sophomore southpaw, looks good in the discus. Jack Kiggen and Bob Buber give the Crimson depth in this event. In the shot, head man is Jerry Kanter, who took the event in the Yale indoor meet by heaving the sphere over 47 feet. Bob Ray should be able to equal this, and Wilson is expected to make a good showing here...
Under Two Dictators, by Margarete Buber. The impressive testament of an ex-Communist who survived the concentration camps of both NKVD and Gestapo (TIME...