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...even more mysterious alchemy will then become wisdom . . . Education has pinned its faith to a fictitious 'progress,' blandly believing that man is a romantic creature destined to walk the road of evolution 'more and more unto the perfect day.' Every tenet of this creed has been falsified: progress has become a rather nasty mixture of cash and gadgets, and the road of evolution has reached-Buchenwald...
Before the court was the case of Chicago's Joseph Beauharnais,* founder of the "White Circle League of America, Inc." He had been convicted for printing scurrilous material about Negroes, under a 1917 Illinois law that makes it a crime to hold up any "race, color, creed or religion to contempt, derision, or obloquy." Last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Illinois law, marking the first time it has sanctioned such statutes. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority: "If an utterance directed at an individual may be the object of criminal sanctions...
...coin which he held up to his readers 3½ years ago. He calls it "a defense of religion"; more exactly, it is a philosopher's admission that there is a God independent of nature -although experience of Him need not be tied to a religious creed...
Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
Doctors Only. In a two-story stone building on Philadelphia's busy Broad Street, Librarian Adler began setting up the kind of school Lawyer Dropsie had in mind. There were to be no restrictions on race, creed or sex, and no tuition fees. Only candidates for doctorates would be accepted, and the admission requirements would be kept purposely stiff...