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...Dewey-eyed "pragmatic naturalism," his belief that the scientific method is readily applicable to moral problems. Some may find his anti-religious skepticism dated or even antique. But anyone who wants to understand the broad tradition in Western thought which Sidney Hook represents could scarcely find a better, clearer or more honest exposition...
...that next month he would announce his affiliation with the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher-a job that will fulfill his salary requirements and give him the freedom he seeks. In the fall, when the political fortunes of Jack Kennedy and Pat Brown are clearer, he will make the momentous decision on where to run and when. For the moment, Dick Nixon was closing no doors, and there was only one certainty in his political future. Said he: "I will not retire from public life...
Obviously, the incentives for education differ from person to person--for some high marks might lead to graduate school or a good job, for others an exchange of ideas might provide new ideas or, at least, clearer ones. But incentives, which are the means to an end, can be imposed externally. At Harvard the end product of a final examination is the mark achieved, and little else...
...answer was somewhere in between, and some distance from ideology. To those who had not sensed it during the campaign, Kennedy was making clearer every day that while he is full of ideas, he is far from a doctrinaire ideologist; that he possesses political skills and instincts that would delight his personal political hero, F.D.R...
...aftermath of De Gaulle's turbulent five-day visit, two things were becoming clearer. As a hope and a plan, Algérie Française was dead. The European extremists, whose mob violence overthrew the Fourth Republic, had proved paper tigers. And in the face of the mass Moslem hostility displayed last week, not even the most misguided colon could continue the fiction that the silent Moslems (who are nine-tenths of the population) secretly longed to become Frenchmen and make Algeria an integral part of France...