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The futility of intense soul-searching ultimately turns this guilt to the question of religion--did God create homosexuals as they are? But such an attempt must overcome a hoary stumbling-block of philosophical disputation--the problem of free will versus necessity. A view that sees sexual preferences as determined...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: God's in His Heaven | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

That he is. Last week Mortimer Adler, now a jaunty 74, author of 26 books, progenitor of the Great Books of the Western World and of the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was relishing another intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debating in the Groves of Aspen | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Despite the modest disclaimers of certain of the principals involved, the publicity and disputation generated by the Currier House seminar has not been overblown to the point of absurdity. In point of fact, it may be concluded that the entire concatenation of events is far more indicative of the "unspoken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intrepid Churls | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

Southern cookery has inspired more versification, disputation and calumniation than gin, politics or pulchritude. Senior Writer Michael Demarest, a deep-fry gourmet of the Ogden Nash School, reports.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - MODERN LIVING: A Home-Grown Elegance | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. Information provides the raw material for discourse, inquiry, disputation, reflection, indeed for almost any sort of intellectual activity. For...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

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