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Died. José Ortega y Gasset, 73, famed Spanish philosopher (The Revolt of the Masses), essayist and journalist; of cancer; in Madrid (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Three men got together in a tiny Manhattan studio this week to discuss a widely unread book. The occasion was CBS's long-run (15 years), longhair radio show Invitation to Learning. The three men: Critic John Mason Brown, Essayist Clifton Fadiman and Moderator Lyman Bryson...
...three decided, but conversation has a different price tag on it. "There must be mind in talk to make it conversation," said Moderator Bryson. "Television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes," said Critic Brown. "A conversation has to be more than just chewing gum or wastage." Essayist Fadiman urged intellectual exercise. "You can cultivate the conversational muscles as you can cultivate the muscles that enable you to play golf or tennis," he suggested...
Died. Maria Nys Huxley, 55, wife of British-born Poet-Essayist-Novelist Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point, Brave New World); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Pusey cited essayist Richard Hofstadter's concern with the implicit assumption that "education ought to pay its own way" as an instrument rather than a goal. "As the function of education becomes increasingly circumscribed, the danger in this assumption grows," Pusey said...