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Then There Were Three. But as each of his protagonists is analyzed down to what Adler considers his fundamental position, only three basic views on freedom emerge though, within each, violent arguments may continue to erupt. The first, what Adler calls the freedom of "self-realization," relates freedom to circumstances: a man is free if he can actually live as he desires. This is the position of Hobbes, for example, who views all laws as an infringement upon freedom. The second basic definition of freedom characterizes it as an acquired state of mind, and Adler dubs those who uphold...
Personality. Eloquent and hardworking, he gets to his office at 8:30 each morning, has been known to make as many as 16 speeches in a single day. Has a rapid walk, fastidiously precise diction, and a temper that can erupt over the slightest clumsiness on the part of a subordinate. Married to the daughter of his former Strasbourg landlady, he eats sparingly, drinks scarcely at all, likes long walks, the opera and Russian novels...
...interest to many only as someone who is so disgusting that there is a fascination in waiting for the next blunder that will erupt from the irascible Mr. Paar...
...majored in international relations at Harvard. During his junior year Jack went to Europe under the auspices of Ambassador Joe Kennedy, and in Berlin one night in 1939, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Alex Kirk gave him a message to take to his father: world war would erupt within a week...
...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...