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These exemplars have not caused the author to mute his own polemic. He was, after all, a student and friend of Philosopher John Dewey, and the disciple adheres to the master's dictum: human freedoms can be extended only by the arts of intelligence. In Philosophy and Public Policy, that intelligence oscillates between civility and perversity. "The Hero in History" summarizes his brilliant division of the "event-making" men who redirect history (Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country...
...Ciudad Deportiva, Havana's Boston Garden, two reminders that sport and politics are not separate in Cuba stick out. One, a ghostly mural of Che, grossly out of place in a sports arena. The other is a Maoesque dictum on the wall: SPORTS IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE--Fidel...
Foremost, Terry Won't Talk embraces a thoroughgoing relativism, a denial of all values, an exposition of Wittgenstein's dictum (included in the program notes) that "all propositions are of equal value." As Mr. Blade tells Chester, "There's always an alternative," a meaningless choice between meaningless poles. People talk in paralleled non sequiturs...
Wilson sets the company standards for first-class engineering. He has surrounded himself with top aeronautical specialists, who had better know their stuff when they make presentations to top management. Wilson grows downright testy at numbers that do not add up or equations that are faulty. The dictum around headquarters: "Wilson doesn't want history. Give it to him on an 8-in. by 10-in. piece of paper and be sure your numbers are right...
...Modern communications have speeded up the course of world events. Almost every week, you get an indication of the importance of the man on the scene." That dictum, from former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is one of Associate Editor Jordan Bonfante's favorite quotations of the past few months. Rusk was talking about the continuing importance of America's beleaguered diplomatic service, but Bonfante thinks the words might just as easily apply to TIME's own well-traveled corps of foreign correspondents. In trying to describe and assess the increasing number of assaults on diplomatic privilege...