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...Charge Resented. Italy's new President is a militant Catholic, an engaging conversationalist, and a hobbyist with a passion for model trains, which fill one room of his Rome apartment. Born near Pisa in modest circumstances, he worked his way through college, was an early leader of the Catholic workers' movement, was decorated for gallantry three times in World War I. A founding member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced...
...then, as a student, that Diderot caught that insidious 18th century disease: a chronic high fever to know everything. The Embattled Philosopher tells the story of how Denis Diderot, philosopher, encyclopedist, playwright, novelist, art critic, conversationalist and lover, came to personify the French 18th century, and how he created the intellectual Trojan horse that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows...
...Road. It is the informal and gifted conversationalist-not the abstruse philosopher-that Boston's Lucien Price has caught in Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead. When Author Price, an editorial writer for the Boston Globe, first met Whitehead. the philosopher was past 70. But as their friendship developed, Price would leave the old man's study dazzled and "exhilarated as with a raging flame of life." From 1934 to Whitehead's death in 1947 at the age of 86, Price went back again and again, afterward recording each conversation. Once, Whitehead saw him to the door...
...weeks. During the first three weeks of his sophomore year, each student who has shown interest in belonging to a club by registering with the dean's office, is visited by roving committees from the clubs. These groups that with each man, evaluating his potentialities as a mess-mate, conversationalist and fellow club man. Then the clubs make their bids. The more talented and popular students have a problem in deciding which of the many bids that they receive to accept. Their less socially desirable classmen also have a problem. Under the 100 per cent agreement, started in 1950, every...
Controversial Conversationalist...