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...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Other, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...five years he lived with Lou as "brother and sister" and was known among his friends as Lou's "maid of honor." Nothing better expressed the relationship of the two philosophers to Lou than a photograph they once had taken. Nietzsche and Ree are harnessed to a cart in which a grinning Lou is brandishing a whip...
...James now live in Las Vegas ("I just report for the show at 8 and go home at n"), where she has been playing golf and doing very little else for the past two years. "Exercise? Not really; all I get is climbing in and out of the golf cart...
...death of every major author, James Thurber wrote, is followed by the arrival at his door of a literary executor, who will drink his Scotch, mouse around his attic for a year or more, then cart off all his old laundry tickets, racing forms and telephone numbers for a posthumous volume. Anticipating this raggedy sort of immortality, Thurber once poked through his papers and. in The Notebooks of James Thurber, listed seven deterrents to their publication: "persistent illegibility, paucity of material, triviality of content, ambiguity of meaning, facetious approach, preponderance of juvenilia and exasperating abbreviation." In this volume of hitherto...
...size and complexity and the cost of labor increases, advertising is an indispensable substitute for the personal salesmanship of times past. The genial clerk who used to sell undecided customers with the assurance that "my own family uses it" is steadily giving way to the self-service shopping cart. Today, advertising is the magnet that draws customers into the nation's supermarkets and department stores, and the prime mover of human inventiveness. Emerson notwithstanding, a man has small inspiration to build a better mousetrap unless he can mass-produce it and shout to the world about...