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...think Clay is so superduper, but he was clearly outclassed. Clay did a spot of sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
...Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff of Argyll, Keeper of Dunstaffnage, Carrick, Tarbert and Dunoon Castles, and heir to a Burke's dozen earldoms, viscountcies, marquisates and baronetcies. Favored Four. In 1951, two weeks after a lurid divorce from Louise, the duke married Mrs. Sweeny. Last week in Edinburgh, the Toppers too were divorced. Their decree. 65.000 words long, took the judge. Lord Wheatley, 4½ hours to read through. It was no Cole Porter lyric. On the basis of the evidence, declared the judge, the duchess, now 49, "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only...
When James received his appointment to the Gifford Lectureship at Edinburgh University, he viewed it, firstly, as an opportunity for an act of filial devotion. Immediately after his father's death in 1882 he had written his wife: "you must not leave me till I understand a little more of the value and meaning of religion, in Father's sense, in the mental life and destiny of man. It is not the one thing needful, as he said. But it is needful with the rest. My friends leave it altogether out. I as his son (if for no other reason...
...Marries Alice Howe Gibbens 1879 Begins teaching philosophy 1885 Professor of philosophy 1889 Professor of psychology 1890 Publication of Principles of Psychology 1897 Publication of Will to Believe and Other Essays 1897 Professor of philosophy 1898 Injury to heart 1899-01 Convalescence in Europe 1901-02 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh 1902 Publication of Varieties of Religious Experience 1905 Trip to Mediterranean 1906 Acting Professor at Stanford University 1907 Publication of Pragmatism 1907 Final resignation from Harvard 1908-09 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford 1909 Publication of A Pluralistic Universe, Meaning of Truth 1910 In Europe 1910 Died, Chocorua, N.H., August...
...last years of his life, James penetrated into the citadels of Old World learning. His immensely successful lectures at Oxford and Edinburgh, perhaps more than anything else, demonstrated that America had come of age intellectually. Europe and America, the sciences and the humanities, nineteenth century and twentieth century--in James they all blend, in James they seem to find their finest mediator...