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After her release, Brenda applied for readmission to her tenth-grade class at Burgland High School and was turned away by Principal Commodore Dewey Higgins. Angered, 120 of her schoolmates walked out, assembled at a Negro Masonic hall, and were advised by organizers of the Nashville-based Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (who had come to McComb to spur Negro voting) to march upon city hall. The students filed two abreast to the city hall steps, began to pray-and were all arrested. A white S.N.C.C. leader among them, Robert Zellner, 22, of Atlanta, was beaten and kicked...
...despised in a world full of pain. But happiness and delight are a different sort of thing. They come to be through a fulfillment that reaches to the depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more perfect happiness (all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow -Jane Austen) (Jeticity or continued happiness consists not in having prospered, but in the process of prospering -Frank Thilly) BEATITUDE refers in this sense...
Victory's Spoil. Another growing interest of Dillon's was politics. "I imagine he was bored as hell with banking," says a friend. A lifelong Republican, Dillon worked with John Foster Dulles on the 1948 presidential campaign of New York's Tom Dewey; a year later he won an election as a G.O.P. state committeeman. In 1952 he helped secure New Jersey's Republican delegation for Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower, contributed heavily to Ike's campaign chest. After the election, on Dulles' recommendation, Dillon got an impressive spoil of victory: the ambassadorship to Paris...
...teacher of undergraduates, then, is o be exciting and to inspire out-of-class study, according to Hook. And the best teachers are not necessarily those who know education. (For instance, Hook's teacher, John Dewey "violated his own rules...
Wrong but Right. Man's existential loneliness, says Hook, cannot be comforted by either resignation or faith, but by courageously facing the facts of his existence. "In the best of societies," he says, "death may be conquered, but not tragedy." Like Dewey, Hook disdains the jargonauts among his colleagues, insists that questions and answers must merely meet the test of common sense. He exhaustively argues, for instance, that the metaphysical term "Being" is, in Dewey's phrase, a "zero word." The term, Hook says, "merely enables those who write obscurely and feel inchoate to imagine that they...