Word: eternall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Solution. For 65 years after his Hopkins days, Dewey preached his doctrine, making his way from the University of Michigan to the University of Chicago and finally to Columbia's Teachers College. Tugging at his mustache and rumpling his hair, he lectured in a gentle voice, pausing awkwardly...
Last week, after hearing the defendant himself admit the truth of the story, the Versailles jury voted Captain de Récy guilty as charged. The sentence: ten years at hard labor; a fine of 50,000 francs ($14,000). "Nothing has prepared me for this," said the broken, tuberculous...
In such a world, said Dewey, the philosopher (and, for that matter, the educator) has no alternative but to ignore the universe. Nor should he concern himself with God or the existence of absolutes. His target is man and society, where nothing is either good or bad, but only better...
Last week, Florentines flocked to the scene of Savonarola's execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of...
"Dare you wed a wild man of the woods." he crooned, "and come and live with him in his cavern . . .?" Jane had often answered "Never, never!" to such proposals. But at last she weakened and agreed, suggesting they live with her mother. To this, he growled: "The man should bear...