Word: deweyitis
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...surprising that Mortimer J. Adler, who has repeatedly plunged himself into the thorniest problems of education, should tackle this ancient theme. Already as a Columbia undergraduate, Adler nagged philosophy professors by exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books...
...official talk, "the people of the world will demand and get a worldwide judicial system." Law Day, the U.S.'s answer to Russia's May 1 show of military might, gained firm precedent when the board of governors decided to observe it again next year. Thomas E. Dewey's Special Committee on International Law Planning frankly added up U.S. failures in world-law leadership, proposed a system of continent-sized courts that would adjudicate day-to-day issues between nations under a revitalized World Court...
...division commander in the rival Second Army.) Lodge met Eisenhower, was an admirer from then on; he started publicly plugging Ike for President as far back as 1950. In November 1951, before General Eisenhower agreed to run, the three-D Ikemen (New York's Governor Tom Dewey, Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, Kansas' ex-Senator Harry Darby) tabbed Lodge to manage the Ike campaign for the nomination...
Monaghan to Hopkins. Admiral Holloway was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in June 1898, the famous year in which the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, Commodore Dewey gave the order in Manila Bay-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and the Navy moved into its new role of world responsibility. In 1904 his father, Dr. James Lemuel Holloway Sr., an osteopath who at 98 is still widely respected in the Southwest, moved his family to Dallas. There Jim went to Oak-cliff High School (now Adamson High), made a name as a varsity football tackle, a member...
Malts Alarm. In Owosso, Mich., when a fire started in Dewey Campbell's auto, Dewey got a bottle of beer from a saloon, shook it up, extinguished the flame with foaming brew...