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Adler's personal hero-philosopher is Aristotle, whose Ethics Adler has read no fewer than 25 times. While conceding advances in logic, political theory and the philosophy of science, Adler argues that, except for Aquinas' massive Summa Theologiae, barely an ethical or metaphysical yard has been gained in all the centuries since Aristotle. He is particularly hard on the empiricists, notably Locke. According to Adler, Locke's worst error was to posit that ideas are what each individual consciously experiences and since different individuals' experiences inevitably vary, ideas also vary. Adler finds such notions "repugnant to reason." He calls...
...magnum opus. As far a comparisons go, let it be said that Rona Jaffe '51 has a lock on the 25th Reunion trash novel category of this ilk, and Class Reunion wasn't anywhere near as pretentious as The Class, Even Love Story, while making no attempts at profundity (except, of course, in its one infamous and unfortunate definition of love), has its place in this venerable category of literature. Maybe Segal is just trying too hard...
...touchy subject for Babette: "To the best of my knowledge, Jack, I'm not taking anything that could account for my memory lapses. On the other hand I'm not old. I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing in my family background except tipped uteruses." "You're saying Denise is right." "We can't rule it out." "You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember...
Across A Crowded Room is difficult to get into at first because Thompson literally tries every trick except shoving his twang bar up the listener's nose. Yet this album also has a sense of urgency and creativity that is missing from most pop music. Though Thompson may initially seem malicious (towards both his old flames and the the contemporary ear which Michael Jackson has so thoroughly dulled), this is an album you could listen to a hundred times. But the album before Thompson tosses you in one of his songs...
...sort of knowledge that is essential to understanding America's involvement. More than a war history, it is a sociological study of modern America and ideology, and how that ideology brought the United States to its greatest disaster in the twentieth century. Baritz does not discuss economic motives, except in passing, and this is perhaps Backfire's greatest lacking as a comprehensive explanation of why this country fought in Vietnam...