Word: deweyitis
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...long, hard effort against the Dragon of Deweyism, Huckster Adler deserves the fur-lined spittoon. But before he sallies forth again, he should straighten out his armor. His recent encyclopedist tendency, his readiness to defend either side of a contradiction (made out to be a virtue in your article), his over-all intellectual hedgehopping show the same irreverence and inconclusiveness that make the philosophies of William James and John Dewey what they are: anti-wisdoms. Mr. Adler may have provided his own criteria for what he chooses to call "Great Ideas," but he has yet to discover a criterion...
...gruff Colonel Robert R. McCormick, an unswaying Taftman, conferred with Eisenhower for half an hour at the general's headquarters in France. Then reporters asked: Will you support Ike if he gets the Republican nomination? Snorted the Colonel: "I would support the Republican candidate. I supported Dewey, for God's sake...
Spring turnout for the varsity baseball team at Princeton included Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide...
...students want to know the values we are protecting, not technical devices." Reported A. A. Suppan, philosophy professor at Wisconsin State Teachers College in Milwaukee, after a round table on the subject: "Many of the students say, 'We need some certainty.' They point out that the Dewey criterion for good-'Will it work?'-can be a measuring stick for totalitarians...
Soon he was himself teaching the Honors course.* He also got a job as a psychology instructor (his feud with Professor Dewey kept him out of the philosophy department), and launched vigorously into experiments. When he was trying to measure fear, he calmly dropped a four-foot live boa constrictor on to people's shoulders. "Boy," he recalls happily, "would their pupils dilate...