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BRUCE PITKEN CRANSTON...
...rest of the team won't be long behind the freshman from Cranston. Cross-country runners tend to show improvement as the season progresses...
That he is. Last week Mortimer Adler, now a jaunty 74, author of 26 books, progenitor of the Great Books of the Western World and of the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was relishing another intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston, who had been invited to debate Adler on his own turf-the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Moderated by Bill Moyers and billed as a medieval-style "public disputation" on the future of democracy, the affair celebrated the 25th anniversary of Adler's Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research...
...London School of Economies' Cranston, 57, a liberal political theorist, was much less sanguine about democracy's capacity to reconcile "the competing, conflicting wills" of its motley electorate. For him, democracy is merely "the least unjust" form of government, in which "the ignorance of the many is mitigated by professional experience of the politicians." Quinton, 52, an analytic philosopher from Oxford, adopted a still more gloomy view, calling government "a necessary evil" that "allows for tyranny by the collectivity over the individual." Quinton also mocked Adler's belief that all want to share in government by voting...
...special quality of the 1977 edition of Harvard baseball, they never looked back, only ahead. Brown was the next prey in the team's sights and was soon coldly dispatched, 9-2, on May 6. Mike Stenhouse a freshmen second baseman from Cranston, Rhode Island, fired the biggest shots on the visitors from his home state, hammering two home runs to give McOsker all the runs he needed and Harvard its third win in the Eastern League...