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...this man through its special ability to combine a) disciplines, b) historical periods, and c) national styles. This is not to emphasize methodology over historic themes; in science a methodological vocabulary is a key to understanding, but in the humanities a knowledge of basic philosophers from Plato to, say, Dewey could easily serve to structure further exploration in that area...
...hour are meager. Mathematics for non-mathematicians (Nat Sci 116) allows students to bridge the two cultures without wetting their feet in a torrent of labs. One of the key problems in modern thought, "Value and Explanation in Social Theory," and some of the key modern thinkers--Kierkagaard, Neitzsche, Dewey, and Mannheim--structure Soc Sci 115. For those whose roomates are so lovable that there is no outlet for hostilities Soc Rel 120 ("Analysis of Interpersonal Behavior") encourages students to dump on their fellows in section...
Johnson was not on hand to answer Barry, having sent Hubert Humphrey to handle the chore for him. In fact, Lyndon was the first presidential candidate to pass up the event since 1948. That was the year that Tom Dewey decided to send his regrets...
Withheld Endorsement. On the Republican side, carpetbagging was not the issue, but there was plenty of dissidence nonetheless. Incumbent Keating, with big convention send-offs from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Jacob Javits, Dick Nixon and Tom Dewey, received his party's nomination by acclamation. Only the day before, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce had declined the New York Conservative Party's invitation to run as a third Senate candidate -one who might easily draw enough votes away from Keating to cause his defeat...
...under urging from Rocky, Javits, Nixon and Dewey (but not from Barry Goldwater or any of his aides, who advised her to do as she thought best), Mrs. Luce appeared before the G.O.P. convention with a plea for party unity. "All Republicans should be for one, and one for all," she said. "In a common cause, confronted with an enemy, what men of common sense do is close ranks, as I am doing today...